Hi all, I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with Silva (CMS) but Ive created a SQL code source which works fine when tested in the ZMI but when attempting to add this code source into a Silva document via the Silva Management Interface I get a UnicodeDecodeError. I think I know why this is but Im not sure how to resolve it, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Basically my 'Silva SQL Source' generates a MultiListField by extracting its values from a database however there are some quite unusual characters contained in the returned recordset for the MultiListField, see below the tuple I generate from the recordset. [('Developmental Neurobiology', 'ANAT2008'), ('Neuroanatomy', 'ANAT2009'), ('The Evolution and Development of Body Form - Visceral Systems', 'ANAT2022'), ('The Evolution and\r\nDevelopment of Body Form \xbf The\r\nMusculoskeletal System', 'ANAT2023'), ("Man's Place in Nature,\r\n1750\xbf1900: The Debate in Britain", 'HMED3001'), ('Medicine, Disease and\r\nSociety from Antiquity to the\r\nRenaissance', 'HMED3003'), ('Madness and Society', 'HMED3004'), ('Medicine and Modern\r\nSociety', 'HMED3006'), ('Colonial and Empire\r\nMedicine', 'HMED3009'), ('Disease in History', 'HMED3010'), ('The Rise of Modern\r\nMedicine, 1650\xbf1900', 'HMED3013'), ('Medicine in Asia', 'HMED3014'), ('Advanced Cell Biology', 'ANAT3001'), ('Mechanisms of Development', 'ANAT3003'), ('Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning', 'ANAT3018'), ('Advanced Neuroanatomy', 'ANAT3025'), ('Neurobiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases', 'ANAT3028'), ('Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology', 'ANAT3030'), ('The Control of Movement', 'ANAT3031'), ('Neural Computation and Models of Brain Function', 'ANAT3041'), ('The Peripheral Nervous System', 'ANAT3033'), ('Pain', 'ANAT3042'), ('Biological Timing (Chronobiology)', 'ANAT3043'), ('Neurobiology of Vision', 'ANAT3044'), ('Integrated Downstream Processing', 'BENG4001'), ('Design and Control of Biochemical Reactors', 'BENG4002'), ('Bioprocess Validation and Quality Control', 'BENG4010'), ('Integrated Biochemical Engineering Design', 'BENG4011'), ('Bioprocess Design and Implementation', 'BENG4012'), ('- Research Project', 'Option 1'), ('Bioprocess Research Project and', 'BENG4005'), ('Bioprocess Experimental Study', 'BENG4006'), ('- Biological Sciences', 'Option 2'), ('Molecular Biology for Biochemical Engineers', 'BIOC4601'), ('Structures of Biological Polymers', 'BIOC4602'), ('Metabolic Pathways and\r\ntheir Regulation', 'BIOC4603'), ('- Process Engineering', 'Option 3'), ('Introduction to Human Anatomy', 'ANAT1003')] As you can see this containes some strange chars particularly \r\n which I believe is a carriage return, and \xbf which I believe represents a hyphen - So Im assuming that this is the reason for the failure in the SMI. And would like to find a way to either replace these characters or alternatively change the recordset encoding prior to generating the MultiListField. I tried replacing these characters by converting the tuple for my MultiListField into a string first using a python script but it didnt seem to work (do anything): modules = context.module_retriever() mytuple = modules.tuples() mystring =str(mytuple).replace('\xbf','-') return mystring N.B. module_retriever is my Z SQL method that returns the resultset. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can resolve this? Jon UCL