I've noticed problems viewing UTF-8 data in Word97, but the same data looked OK in Word2000. Generally speaking, all the language/UTF-8 work I've been involved with was via XML and the browser was the only was they only way we could reliably view the data. Word2000 uses some of the same libraries (another Monk may have more information/knowledge in this area...?) as IE and is much better than previous versions at displaying XML/UTF data.