What I need to do is take input from a HTMl form, make sure it's in utf-8, and use it in a method which spell checks it. At the moment, it spell checks fine, but letters like â, ê and ô are come back as "ê" , "a"(werid looking - smaller and up) and a weird looking "?" in that order. I think I need to change them to latin 1 for printout. And how would i convert w^ and y^ to utf-8. Thanks for all the help, greatly appreciated. :-) Aled.