You need to set Locale in z2.py. For Windows and iso-8859-2 (czech character set) it is "cz" (linux is "cs_CZ"). For iso-8859-1 I does not know your locale. Regards J. Lukesh. ---------- Odes=EDlatel: Oliver Marx <oliver@tekk.dk> Can it be right that structured text cannot handle fx =C6=D8=C5 ? "Foo bar =E6=F8", mailto:foobar@foo.net does *not* work in Zope 2.5.1, Pl= one 0.9.9