Hi, On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:19, Roman Joost wrote: > AFAIK, you can't write german umlauts in xml files, which are utf-8 > encoded. Well, of course you can. That's the whole point of UTF-8 encoding. It provides a single encoding suitable for all languages so that they can coexist in the same file. All XML-1.0 compatible tools must handle UTF-8 correctly and there is thus no need to use entities. Sven