Hi: I think the problem is from j2sdk 1.4.2 I use J2SDK 1.4.1_06 and Tomcat5.0.16, the characters are correct. hope helps! Zhang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://webmail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/attachments/20031223/c4791658/attachment.htm>