If you've got the perl-libwww-perl package installed, use the HEAD and GET scripts to help diagnose the problem. First, figure out what character set your web server is advertising in the HTTP headers: HEAD http://yourhost.it/ | grep charset Then, make sure it jibes with your web page says: GET http://yourhost.it/ | grep charset Do the charset settings returned from those two commands match? If so, are they what you expect? -- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx>