Hi Since migrating my application to up to date versions I have run into a new accent related problem. java.net.URLEncoder.encode is nuking French accents in URL strings. I am using an sqlEncode script for escaping accents in JDBC queries to the database. It works just fine but moving through record sets does not - the query variable that is passed to the next page is no longer escaped... The offending Dreamweaver MX code is as follows: // add the Form variables to the MM_keepForm string if (request.getParameterNames().hasMoreElements()) { java.util.Enumeration items = request.getParameterNames(); while (items.hasMoreElements()) { String nextItem = (String)items.nextElement(); boolean found = false; for (int i=0; !found && i < MM_removeList.length; i++) { if (MM_removeList[i].equals(nextItem)) found = true; } if (!found && MM_keepURL.indexOf('&' + nextItem + '=') == -1) { MM_keepForm = MM_keepForm + '&' + nextItem + '=' + java.net.URLEncoder.encode(request.getParameter(nextItem)); } } } If I convert my database to UTF-8 will this problem go away? It is currently still LATIN1 Cheers Tony -- Tony Grant www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx, hébergement: www.3continents.com - international film festival | www.chez-reine.com - gîte en Bretagne | www.haut-planty.com - Muscadet wine | www.loire-estuaire.org - GIP Loire Estuaire