Hey, I am making a site primary for the Swedish audiance, Swedish alphabets are pretty much the same as our English ones except for three extras, which are: (lowercase) åäö (and uppercase) ÅÄÖ While using dreamweaver to format some of the pages I noticed that DW converts those letters to: å=å ö=ö ä=ä Å=Å Ö=Ö Ä=Ä which displays fine on the html output. My question is, do you think I should do a str_replace() on all instances of user input if it matches the above 6 characters before putting it in the mysql db...or leave it as is? Just writing åäöÅÄÖ normally in a html file is not giving me any problems either...but that may because when i installed windows I installed Swedish and English language packs.....I guess using the codes that dreamweaver uses would just make it easier for people to read who dont have the language installed on their system...question is, is it worth the str_replace() price for a high traffic dating site? Thanks, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.4 - Release Date: 4/6/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php