Andreas did provided a How-to for using non ASCII characters and structured text. Since it only explains settings for Linux here is what you have to use under W2000.

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locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'german') 'German_Germany.1252' locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'german_Germany') 'German_Germany.1252' locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'german_Switzerland') 'German_Switzerland.1252'

so starting Zope with -L "german" works fine as does -L "german_Switzerland" Robert