function ISOLatin1Encode() {
   // applies function converts 'funny' characters to ISO-Latin-1 NOTE: won't work on non-latin characters
   // also applies a 40,000 character field limit
   var string1, string2, x = document.scform;
   
   for (var i=0; i<x.length; i++) {
           myString = x.elements[i].value;                         
           if (myString.length > "40000") {alert("You cannot enter more than 40,000 characters in a give field"); x.elements[i].focus(); return false; }
           string2 =""
           for (j=0; j<myString.length; j++) 
                  if (myString.charCodeAt(j) >122) string2 = string2 + "\&#" + myString.charCodeAt(j) + ";";
                  else string2 = string2 + myString.charAt(j);  
           x.elements[i].value = string2; 
      }
return true;
}