I cant get the correct danish characters in my Zope on win2000 ____________________________________ Zope Version (Zope 2.5.1 (binary release, python 2.1, win32-x86), python 2.1.3, win32) Python Version 2.1.3 (#35, Apr 8 2002, 17:47:50) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] System Platform win32 ____________________________________ I start Zope with: "....z2.py" -D -L danish_denmark I can verify the locale from this external method: def getEnv(self): return locale.getlocale() Which gives me the following: ['Danish_Denmark', '1252'] ____________________________________ I have an index_html looking like: <html metal:define-macro="page"> ... <div metal:define-slot="page_content"> æøåÆØÅ </div> ... </html> See attachment: index1.jpg to see how the 6 characters in <div>æøåÆØÅ</div> 'look' in danish. in HTML:"æøå&Aelig;ØÅ" ____________________________________ When I test the page I get garbled characters See attachment: test.jpg to see how the 6 characters look when rendered. (it seems there are 12 characters...) What am I doing wrong ? Any help would be appreciated. regards Jørgen Jørgensen Denmark