Hi, could your perhaps give me some hits as to how to display German charcters properly. I use Mambo, and in my local (Mambo Stand Alone Server, MSAS) installation, everythings works just fine. I like the UniServer, so I want to abondon MSAS. I created a new installation on UniServer 3.3. The german charcters are correctly shown in the content but not in the headings and menu-text. I have tried everythings, but I guess I just do not get it. The MySQL daatabase of the MSAS did not allow defining the charset, so I assume it was latin1. Now, I created one DB on the UniServer with latin1general, lat1german1ci, lat1german2ci, lat1swedishci, lat1binary, none worked. In addition I have got this DB error: DB function failed with error number 1054 Unknown column 'c.access' in 'on clause' SQL=SELECT c.*, g.name AS groupname, cc.name, u.name AS editor, f.content_id AS frontpage, s.title AS section_name, v.name AS author FROM mos_content AS c, mos_categories AS cc, mos_sections AS s LEFT JOIN mos_groups AS g ON g.id = c.access LEFT JOIN mos_users AS u ON u.id = c.checked_out LEFT JOIN mos_users AS v ON v.id = c.created_by LEFT JOIN mos_content_frontpage AS f ON f.content_id = c.id WHERE c.state >= 0 AND c.catid=cc.id AND cc.section=s.id AND s.scope='content' ORDER BY s.title, c.catid, cc.ordering, cc.title, c.ordering LIMIT 0,10 Any help is much appreciated, --doc