At 11:59 AM 1/5/2010, you wrote: >I too use utf-8 based on reading that it was an >international standard. Does anyone else have >observations on its use? It's the default used with Expression web but I usually change it to <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> http://www.htmlbasictutor.ca/character-encoding.htm pat