Hi I am currently having problems sorting out utf8 encoding through the following chain of events, and I would GREATLY appreciate any help anyone can offer. I need to do the following, in a Zope 2.9.2-, python 2.4.3 setup (I have also tried this on Zope 2.10.4 with the uniocode patch for MySQLDA and get slightly different equally annoying results). 1. Read and parse a file encoded as utf8 - currently done with an external script 2. send it to a page to edit as utf8 3. save it from the page into a mysql database as utf8 This is slightly complicated by the fact that steps 2 and 3 need to happen via XMLHttpRequest calls, and the data is sent serialized as JSON Anyone done anything similar with success ? Currently when I export stuff from my database for the end client I am having to change %uXXXX in the text into \uXXXX then decode the string as 'latin1', further decode it as 'unicode_escape', then recode it as 'utf8'. This seems slightly 'dangerous'. Thanks for any help - this has cost me far too much time already. Adam