Hi, this is my first post to the list, although I've read a while. However, I hope it is useful. > I've been searching for some answers, but have run out of time. This > article does look promising, unfortunately it's in German > http://www.aspheute.com/artikel/20000831.htm I scanned the article and it does indeed look very promising. According to that article you should use the @CODEPAGE directive to set the charset used to display dynamic output. I googled for some English pages on that topic and came up with these: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/html /psdk/asp/eadg6e7n.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/html /psdk/asp/vbob150l.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/ref erence/charsets/charset4.asp hth :-) Patrick