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This may be a symptom of the same problem. I have just started loading a heap of references from rich text format files. They contain titles like "SADDUCEES; Saddoukaios (Σαδδουκαιος)." and so have a bit of Greek (and in other cases Hebrew or Syriac) and a bit of English. The notes associated with these references also contain a mix of languages. If I cut and paste such references or notes from electronic references into even the humble MS Wordpad then my formatting is preserved (as it appears to have been when I pasted the above example into this comment). However, I was surprised to find that when I try to do the same into a Biblioscape note or title field, then all the non-English text was converted to strings of question marks. Am I right in thinking that this is also a Unicode support related problem and if so then do you have any sort of target date for a release which will provide the necessary changes (my next few projects are likely to need a lot of this type of notes). If not, then is there any way I can work round it?

I don't know Hebrew. But I think the problem is caused by the lack of unicode support in Biblioscape. For most western languages, the first 255 chars will do it. This is supported by most other character set as well like Chinese, Japanese, Korean. So you can have Chinese and English records at the same time. But because Biblioscape does not support unicode, you can't mix Chinese with Japanese. This can only be made possible when unicode is supported. It won't be in version 7. May be in version 8.

Paul