In Instiki, if I add something like <p>òàùèé</p> ... if your mailer munges the above line, it is basically oauee with apostrophes... inside, say, app/views/layouts/default.rhtml, this comes to the browser as <p>?????</p> (all "interesting" characters are converted to question mark symbols). If I do edit page and put the same line into page content, there is no problem. Same story with cyrillic and chinese characters. Why is that so? -- Best regards, Alexey Verkhovsky Ruby Forum: http://ruby-forum.org (moderator) RForum: http://rforum.andreas-s.net (co-author) Instiki: http://instiki.org (maintainer)