Peter, it's a built-in feature of every German/Austrian! ;-) To be a little more serious, it's a built-in feature of every computer with German OS (Win/Mac/UNIX ...). Two things are annoying: 1) Windows, Mac and UNIX each have different opinions about what ASCII-value a ", ", " has. 2) Most shareware fonts are not complete in the part of ASCII 128+ and don't have (all) German letters. And French people like ", " a lot, Dansk ", ", Czechians ", Spanish " ... (Just playing around with the Option-key of my Mac (that's Alt-/AltGr-key on Windows)). - wal