Thanks for the excellent pointers, Michael. Glad to know that this isn't merely a unicode issue. Though that makes a clean solution harder. I'm going to give Demoronizer a try.
On the same theme of Microsoft's perpetual "Your feet are the wrong size for your shoes so we're going to force you to buy ours" business model, note the recent I, Cringley analysis of Palladium here: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
