hello again Svein,

well, so can ISO8859_1 be considered an "universal character set",
almost for European languages? Also in Italy we have ten non standard
characters, the five vowels accented with two different kind of
accents.

Regarding the added uppercased column, do you think that there could
be any inconvenience using case-insensitive collation drivers instead
of the added column? On the end there is one less column in the table
to deal with.

Regards
Salvatore