Two blogs, on the same server, using a different install of LifeType, but both the latest svn. Both database created with latin1. http://jon.limedaley.com/plog/archives/2006/08/15/My-test-Just-a-Test-for-Umlauts-. http://matthias.blog.ch/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=18&blogId=15 Alex: what did you mean when you said "every second comment"?