I am not sure about that, I'll have to check. What I noticed though is that builder converted the accented characters correctly when coming from yaml files, but had problems (it did convert them but... See my previous post) getting those coming from the dbf file to hit the target. It seems that the problem was coming from the page code encoding. Thanks Jamal Abdou-Karim Bengeloun Konrad Meyer wrote: > > If I'm not mistaken, HTML and XML encoding is the same. So you're good > for > those &#xxxxxx; chars. > > HTH, -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.