I'm wondering why you are using ü. If you had your site in UTF-8 it would not be necessary. Even google is using UTF-8 these days. I guess your browser automaticly converts the ü in your textarea into the namespace-proper "ü". You could try using htmlentities to convert the & into & or use a different namespace. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php