Regarading my whole character encoding issue - it seems that using the HTML entities in my XHTML: http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/en_test.html works no matter what I set the content-type language to. That seems to make it safer than using unicode characters. Would I be correct in my assumption and should the entities be used always for special chars? Then - what about those that don't fall under the entity. There are some that don't - such as the apostrophe. For these there are the decimal codes: http://www.natural-innovations.com/wa/doc-charset.html For example: # # Number sign How safe are these to use? Again are these affected by the charset - they seem not to be. I've been under the assumption that in XHTML you should put entities or decimal codes for any character other than the alpha chars.. have I been correct? Tom ===== http://www.pixelmech.com/ :: Web Development Services http://www.DMXzone.com/ :: JavaScript Author / Every Friday! http://www.thywordistruth.net/ :: Eternal Life "I'll ho ho and ha ha you!" (Daffy Duck)