Converting non latin characters

Hi there, I have a table containing cities of the world. Now I am running into problems because people are starting to complain that some mayor cities are not in the db like Tokyo. After checking my table I discovered that there lots of cities are written with some non latin characters. Tokyo is written like this: Tðkyð Should, and if how, I convert this characters into latin ones. And what happens if somebody from Japan with a different keyboard tries to find Tokyo? Anyway what type of character is this 'ð' anyway? It does not look Japanese to me :-) Thank you for any help on that, Andy ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.globosapiens.net Global Travellers Network!