Hello, I am querying my French language data via JDBC. Accented caracters do not get returned. When I query via Webmin (Perl???) accents are just fine. Quid??? Cheers Tony Grant -- RedHat Linux on Sony Vaio C1XD/S http://www.animaproductions.com/linux2.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster