I just stubbed my virtual toe on a problem with XML-RPC that I thought I'd fixed about a year ago. It has to do with the use of UTF-8 as the default encoding for XML-RPC. I twiddled my Python search path a little yesterday and unwittingly began picking up the Zope 2.2.1 version of xmlrpclib.py instead of the version I got from Fredrik Lundh and modified locally. When non-7bit-ASCII characters started popping up in my XML-RPC responses I began to get errors because those characters weren't properly encoded as UTF-8. The fix I applied for my own code was to observe that everything I did used Latin-1 and so I simply forced a Latin-1 encoding in all my requests and responses with <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?> When I twiddled sys.path yesterday I began picking up the Zope version of xmlrpclib and began having this Latin-1 vs. UTF-8 problem again. I retwiddled the path to get my version of xmlrpclib.py and things are once again fine. I have a couple questions: How are encodings handled in Zope (at least vis a vis XML-RPC)? I presume that in a Python 1.5.2-based environment such as Zope currently lives in, this is a potential problem. If so, where is the Latin-1 to UTF-8 conversion happening in Zope? It doesn't appear in Zope's version of xmlrpclib.py, nor in lib/python/ZPublisher/xmlrpc.py. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro (skip@mojam.com) http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/