Hi,

I don't know if that is going to be helpful but... * By default I see an I with a caret and a square for the first symbol * If I save your file in local and I open it, I see betas for both characters * Your file seems to be served as encoded in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) according to the page info information in Mozilla

It looks like that the web server may override your file encoding... http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#declaring http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset

You correct Jordi. But see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Sep/0176.html which says that the server should really NOT do this! At any rate, I have switched a setting off on the server #AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1 and now http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/greek.html does indeed show a beta for the utf-encoded version. I strongly suspect however server behaviour will differ wildly. Apache (2.0.49 for above) can be configured, but my experience in asking server administrators to do these things can be very uncertain. I would hazard a guess that dealing with eg greek characters is likely to be a problem for the foreseeable future. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax); rzepahs@mac.com (iChat) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax).