>So basically, I want the Cyrillic on an ASP page however that needs to be. >Can anyone of you help with this existing weird problem? I never used ASP before, but I can imagine that while HTML is supposed to be all in UCS, ASP takes a radically different approach and makes life difficult. I didn't have enough time to properly investigate, but I tried to use character escapes (eg. а stands for one letter) instead of the characters themselves. So the size increases sevenfold. (hell) This has a slight chance of helping: http://newsdf.tripod.com/webforum/rus.html For anyone, who would like to read more , I found a nice page here: http://www.uninetnews.com/other_standards/charset.php --Evgeni Sergeev _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail