> In English the "æ" is a ligature, and in some more languages. It is a > separate letter and *not* a ligature in the Scandinavian languages that uses it. The Unicode name for it is LATIN SMALL LETTER AE. It was called LATIN SMALL LIGATURE AE in version 1.0 but that was changed to LETTER in the next version. (It's now at 6.0.) /Cary