I just check out the zope from cvs. Then I receive error when update properties. It seems the property menager now try to re-code into unicode, but thinking the input is just latin-1. Actually, I have just add to the root of my site the property management_page_charset as utf-8 which the manage page correctly default to utf-8 encoding now. But obviously it does not accept chinese. I have also try to add a new property as ustring but also fail. Should I need to add chinese / Japanese encoding to python? the version : Zope Version (unreleased version, python 2.1.2, freebsd4) Python Version 2.1.2 (#1, Mar 8 2002, 19:05:29) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] System Platform freebsd4 SOFTWARE_HOME /usr/home/zope/Zope/lib/python INSTANCE_HOME /usr/home/zope/InstanceHome CLIENT_HOME /usr/home/zope/InstanceHome/var Process Id 349 (149715968) trace out capture as below: ----- Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. Error Type: UnicodeError Error Value: Latin-1 encoding error: ordinal not in range(256) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troubleshooting Suggestions The URL may be incorrect. The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect. A resource that this resource relies on may be encountering an error. For more detailed information about the error, please refer to the HTML source for this page. If the error persists please contact the site maintainer. Thank you for your patience. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com