Pelmen wrote: > what to do, to encode it properly? UTF-8? You're the one sending it through a socket; only you know what the other side expects. -- Erik Max Francis && max at alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Could it be / That we need loving to survive -- Neneh Cherry