http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/4.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#942 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#942 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#956 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#956 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#959 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#959 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#964 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#964 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#966 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#966 GMT It is a Department of Defense (DoD) combat support agency that has been assigned an important, additional statutory mission of supporting national-level policymakers and Government Agencies. NGA is a member of the Intelligence Community and the single entity upon which the U.S. Government now relies to coherently manage the previously separate disciplines of imagery and mapping. By providing customers with ready access to the world's best imagery and geospatial intelligence, NGA provides critical support for the national decision making process and contributes to the high state of operational readiness of America's military forces.  Marc]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#985 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#985 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#4138 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#4138 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6688 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6688 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6689 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6689 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6690 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6690 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6693 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6693 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6698 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6698 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6706 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6706 GMT Arial Unicode MS seems to be the most Unicode compatible so far. Eyeballing the file, problems seem to reduced to a few arabic alternate name entries in AllCountries.txt: e.g. Rūd-e Takhtarī Kūh-e Takhtarī Dasht-e Takhtarī Sulni Khwaṟ But since they show fine in FireFox, I guess these issues are due to bugs with the Arial Unicode MS font. So don't worry about this, Cheers and thanks for your help! ]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6712 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/176.page#6712 GMT