On Friday, September 1, 2006 at 12:30:56 -0700, William B. Yardley wrote: > do a "cat -v -e" on the file, it shows up as "M-" That's it: The no-break space. Meta-space. Should look as a normal space anywhere, Vim included. | $ printf "<\0240>\n" | iconv -f iso-8859-1 | < > Bye! Alain. -- Hotmail users break umlauts for everyone else on a mailing list! They should stop doing so immediately! « MSN considered HARMFUL » PCC CB on MU. © June 2002