ok i admit... that last one is wrong, the page when saved displays well formed data... but what about header('... charset=UTF-8 statement ? it doesnt occur in phppgadmin files ... On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:24:27 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > there's another thing that can be helpfull tracking my problem. > > when getting data well formed in my explorer from phppgadmin and then > > saving it to my hard disk and displaying it from its local location i > > get the same problems. > > and the line : > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > exists ! > > Then I have no idea... >