This page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378459(v=vs.85).aspx tells how to do it properly Andreas Johansson Senior software developer at Tieto Sweden

I know X| Looks like thats my only way out. Andreas Johansson Senior software developer at Tieto Sweden

First of all, what is your code, what reader are you using? An xml reader, DOM, SAX, or a text reader? No doc type (header)?? That's actually not valid XML. Is it possible to include it? Short of a Byte order mark, w/o the doc type there is NO way to accurately figure out the encoding of file. If you can't add the doc type to your XML doc, you must specify the encoding in your code. UTF-8 would be a safe guess. -- modified at 3:03 Sunday 6th August, 2006 -- modified at 3:04 Sunday 6th August, 2006 /\ |_ E X E GG