Thanks man that did it :-) . What exactly was the problem you've noticed (I am seeing a diff between the two files bu t I am not sure I fully understand)? -- Thodoris Yes I have previously worked on loads of Greek sites. Some how strange enough I had problems whenever I used UTF-8 to store content and even display on the web page. So I had to use default latin swedish ci in the db and also use Charset 1253 in the html meta tag to get everything displayed properly. <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=windows-1253'> Thanks, V
