> > text-content into the system, the characters are automatically > converted > > into a unicode format by the Database, something like &_#_1_2_4_6_4_;
This can happen (and is the correct action) when the character is not part of the repertoire of the character encoding of the web page. Ensure that you have the appropriate HTTP header set - for example Content-Type: text/html; charset=EUC-JP or the equivalent set via a meta http-equiv in the HTML stream. Tim
