I have experienced on my installation that Zope decides that the character set should be iso-8859-1 for IE7 even no HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET is sent from IE7 and preferred charset is utf-8. Firefox submits HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET and Zope handles that OK. http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/2280 <http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/2280> I'm wondering what the correct way to set up Zope to use utf-8? Have set sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') in /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site.py. Have set management_page_charset='utf-8' as property of / in ZMI. Have set default-zpublisher-encoding utf-8 in etc/zope.conf. After the comments in the Collector above I'm wondering what to do if I should not set the sys.setdefaultencoding()? Not changing the default encoding I always get a decode error when trying to save a page template with non-ascii characters. Regards Jost