I've isolated the problem that causes this Error: gb2312: Forbidden Char: 0097 It's an input method conflict when using Windows Internet Explorer, when you have the Windows Language IMEs installed, and also have third party IMEs installed like NJStar and Unionway's asianSuite97 ( I have all three on there - doh!), as well as which Encoding you are using to view your pages. In short, that side of it can be a bit of a mess. Now, I haven't got to the bottom of exactly which part is causing the problem - but it does require a reboot fo your PC to clear it!! So it's a 'gotcha' for the clients - that they may not be aware of. What happens is this. [heads up online support of clients trying to register domains.] You can have any and all IME / page encoding what ever loaded, and your fonts and characters display perfectly. Input into the RACE and or reg_system entry fields appear to be fine. Lovely characters in what ever font type you want. You can type letters, emails what ever. However - press the Encode button in RACE, or go search for a domain - and the encoder falls over. It's not quite smart enough yet to figure out exactly what you have on screen - and it does this "Error: gb2312: Forbidden Char: 0097" This one is Chinese Simplified - but the other languages return the same error ???? I did get one that returned 0093, but couldn't duplicate it again? So when your clients ring/call/mail about this Error: You know what it is...... or might be..... or could maybe be....... A conflict of IMEs Unless I find anyting different, or someone else discovers something else - or the folks in DEV can find a way around this. bob
