> If the file is declared as latin-1 and contains an euro symbol, then the > file is actually invalid since euro is not defined of in iso-8859-1. If > there is no encoding declaration, as Diez already said, the file should > be encoded as utf-8. > You are right of course - latin1 doesn't contain the euro-symbol. ISO-8859-15 it is. Dumb me. Diez