From: ts Date: 2004-04-12T18:38:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem with special characters like üöä (german: umlaut) >>>>> "D" == Dirk Einecke writes: D> .... all is okay. But if I read [1] a file with the content '���' and D> print the content I get this: ������. This is very strange. Can anybody D> help me with this problem? How have you created this file ? It's encoded in UTF8 Guy Decoux