Interesting,  when I previewed my last post, the characters were displayed properly, but when I posted it, EXACTLY the same type of character conversion took place!

Frank,

Thats pretty close,  My field is a text field.  I wonder if that has something to do with it?  The reason for wanting to insert linedrawing codes is that I...

Thanks Frank,  I'll check.  I feel so stupid asking this question because it seems so easy, but I'll be darned if I can figure it out!

Frank,  What I'm trying to do is to insert ASCII line drawing chacters into a text field and then retrieve and display them later.  I'm using Cold Fusion as an...

Frank,  Thanks for the quick Reply! 

Basically, this is what I need to do.