Hey folks, my first post. I'm writing an Apache SSI as a mod_perl module. Apache 1.3.4 / mod_perl 1.18. When Web designers pass it HTML character entities, by the time they arrive at my module some become 8-bit characters. For example, <!--#perl sub="Macromedia::BuildNav::code" args=" header_text=Genératôr reviews and Oscar® awards product_color=#FFCC33 "--> If I `print STDERR` or `$r->print` out args, it contains header_text=Gen \351 erat \364 r reviews and Oscar® awards. The accented characters are encoded as 0xe9 0xf4. * What Apache/mod_perl code is doing the entity decoding? * What character encoding is it using? It looks like ISO-8859-1. * Is there a way to disable this or control it myself? Thanks, and many many thanks for all the code and the commentary. -- =S Page, Macromedia Web engineer "Information is deeper than reality" http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980314/features1.html