From: Dirk Einecke Date: 2004-04-12T19:04:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem with special characters like üöä (german: umlaut) Hi. ts wrote: > How have you created this file ? > > It's encoded in UTF8 The file was created with this code: def writeMyFile(path,content) file = File.open(path, File::WRONLY|File::TRUNC|File::CREAT) content = CGI::unescapeHTML(content) file.write(content) file.close end What can I change? bye Dirk Einecke