Hello All, first I want to say, thanks for this great fine database. I am new but I love it. That is the first database that I find, where I don't need any drivers or services, thats so great I use it as an offline database on cd for holding informations about multiple Installer Packages. The second I want to say is "sorry for my bad english". So here is my problem. I am using sqlite as an PlugIn for AMS 5 (Autoplay Media Studio 5), there is an built-in action that shows the encoding of the sqlite database. So this action gives back the following encoding: iso8859. I tried to update an entry in the database with a string that includes "german umlaute", like ae = ä or oe = ö. The entry was updated but without the "umlaut", now I think its the encoding of my database that doesn't like my string. However can anybody explain how to get any Characters as strings into the database and how I can create a database with an special encoding. Thanks for your help and best regards Sie Tjin Kian