Hi, I have been too busy to actually read the list in the last two weeks, but I thought I'd share with you my latest finding about ZOracleDA/DCOracle: In some circumstances (we suspect the LANG setting at the time of build) it chops 128 (the most significant bit) off characters inserted into the database as strings. In our case, it turned a ™ (trademark) character into a (sometimes reported as ^Y). Since the latter is not a valid character in many sets, this caused severe problems in our related systems. We also had not-so-severe problems with ® (registered trademark, I think) turning into . ("."), because the latter is a common printable. We have two very similar installations of Zope with Oracle, one of them displayed this malicious behaviour, and the other didn't. As far as we could see, the only difference between the two is that in the computer which does modify characters users get (by default) a LANG=POSIX, and on the well-behaved one LANG=en_US. Oh, of course, the details: Zope 2.2.5 binary, ZOracleDA 2.1, DCOracle 1.3.2, Oracle 8.0.5, Linux. (Please cc me on replies; as I said, I don't really read the list very attentively these days). Have fun, Shai.