That's a good point, you could use the Translate command to replace the accented characters with non-accented ones, that would work too. But I'm still in the situation where I need to figure out how to get REXX to recognize those characters. I'm not sure how to have REXX identify them in the code.
Depending on the codepage you can just 'use' them. See the attached sample scripts, one can translate from and to html entities, the other upper/lowercase. The caveat is that this probably only works in the proper codepage. But istr this can be set in REXX too.
Regards,
Joachim