Zope: 2.10.2 Python: 2.4.4 I am not sure if this is a zope problem or a browser problem or a lack of my understanding of webservers and/or utf-8 & unicode but here it is: I have a page template with a form and a textarea input element. The value for the element comes from a database (MySQL) field. The database field contains utf-8 encoded text (includes the bullet and registered characters). When the page is displayed in Firefox (version 1.5.0.9) it displays fine. However when the page is displayed in IE 6 (or 7), it shows garbage characters for the bullet and registered characters. What I find as strange is that if the same field is displayed as just text (i.e. just in a td element rather than in an input element) it displays fine in IE. My page template has the following headers: <html metal:define-macro="page" tal:define="dummy python:request.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html;; charset=utf-8');" > <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> Firefox reports the page encoding as UTF-8 with meta: content-type text/html; charset=utf-8 Input element: <textarea cols="50" name="detail_desc" rows="10" tal:content="record/detail_desc | nothing"></textarea><br> I have also tried adding accept-charset="utf-8" to the form element I have been able to fix the problem by adding this to my zope.conf: <cgi-environment> HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET utf-8 </cgi-environment> I don't understand why this "fixes" the problem or if it is the correct way to resolve this. Any comments would be appreciated Thanks, Daryl. -- Daryl Daly, B.Sc. Chief Programmer/Business Analyst daryld@norco.com Norco Products Ltd. Really Cool Bikes!!! Norco __O Tel: 604-552-2930 ext 205 Performance =\ \ Fax: 604-552-2948 Bikes (=)/(=) www.norco.com 1465 Kebet Way, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, V3C 6L3