Enrico,
>As I said you in private email, I can't see the pasted special character here. It immediately becomes "S".
What I see is that if you use Ctrl-V to paste it, it appears as a regular S, but if you use the right-click menu and select Paste, you get the special character, which then reverts to the regular S when you leave the field, or when you type anything else in the same field.
I am using FWH 2.7 Aug 2006 build/xHarbour, XP Pro SP2.
James