Sadly, it cannot be shortened -- it is a "universal" standard so that all systems can recognize characters of this type. What you refer to are the ASCII codes for the letters. A search on Google for Ascii will illumniate and even provide you with some wonderful pages to print out for reference. hee hee... and you thought you could escape me, didn't you.... bwahahahahahahahaha=== oops. I'll be good, honest! no, no!!! Aaaiiieeeee.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)