There is a quite simple way to do what you want: If you want to input directly into an HTML form on the Geocities site, all you have to do is pull down your "view" menu (I presuppose IE here) and choose "UTF-8" from the Encoding submenu. Since Geocities doesn't send a META tag, your browser will now encode all of the data you type as UTF-8 for you and those are the bytes that will get stored in your page on the back-end. The reason you're getting Shift-JIS now is that your browser is probably set to "Japanese auto-detect" and ASCII is certainly valid Shift-JIS......
Note that adding a META tag to your page is a very good idea if you decide to use UTF-8 as the encoding. You can see that this works here: http://www.geocities.com/apphillips2000/index.html You will note that I included a META tag. Otherwise you have to manually select UTF-8 as the page encoding. Regards, Addison Addison P. Phillips Globalization Architect / Manager, Globalization Engineering webMethods, Inc. | The Business Integration Company 432 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, California, USA +1 408.962.5487 (phone) +1 408.210.3569 (mobile) ------------------------------------------------- Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature.