Every character you send across to another computer must be encoded somehow. This takes place according to a set af rules which together form an encoding or a character set, charset for short. In most cases, the charset used in a plain text document (like an HTML file) cannot be read off the document itself and hence must be explicitly stated in the so-called "header" section of that file.
If your document is in some Western-European language (English, Dutch, French ...) and your Windows Regional Setting are set to that same language, the ISO-8859-1 encoding will most likely be a good choice. That is, your document should start similar to this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; [color=#00FF00]charset=ISO-8859-1[/color]"> <meta name="author" content="Scott"> <title>My interesting document</title> </head> <body> Content goes here. </body> </html> If you post a link to your HTML file here, somebody will try to help you figure out what's the best choice in your case. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,31976,31989> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
