>is there a reason not to use this meta tag? -- > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" > content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> answering my own post again [sheesh]... The Netscape charset Burp http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/ns-burp.html seems to be only certain versions of netscape i'm still leaving it in rudy