Hi, First of all, I'm not very experienced with encoding, so it's could be a very newbie problem. I have a website-builder, which generates a complete struts web-app out of an xml file. However I now have a customer who wants to present his data in russian and german. The data for presentation is entered and stored via Dialogs produced with html taglib, like: <html:text property="name"/>
then, it's stored on the disk as a serializable object. Then it's presented in another html-page via bean:write. If I give both the page and the meta tags charset UTF-8, I get only complete crap like ÃÂÃÆÃÂ in the presentation page. If I use iso-8859-1, bean:write produces things like: вавава, the html-sourcecode is &#1074;&#1072;&#1074;&#1072;&#1074;&#1072; (the source string was something like qwqwqwqw in russian). If I add filter="false" to the bean:write call, everything works fine (with iso-8859-1). Unfortunately there is no filter option in html:text tag, so as soon as I present the data in edit-form for editing aain, I see the в in the input form. So I assume, I'm making an idiotical mistake, but I don't have much experience with editing in russian, so I'd like to ask, if anyone can point me to the right direction. Thanx in advance Leon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]