I found two places where there was an AddDefaultCharset directive in my config files. I commented them both out, and restarted the apache2 server. Still seeing those silly questionmarks. Then tried adding AddDefaultCharset off restarted. Still no dice. Any other suggestions? # AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 (was in conf.d/charset ) # AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1 (was in apache2.conf ) # AddDefaultCharset Off (tried adding this myself ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx