Hi, http_response has a default encoding of iso-8859-1. For my needs, a default of utf-8 would be most convenient. I implemented this in a cheesy way so that I wouldn't have to alter my Quixote installation. If others would find it useful, I could put together a patch that makes this a configurable feature, rather than using my current hack. If there *is* currently a way to set the default, that would be nice to know. From what I saw, HTTPRequest instantiates an HTTPResponse(), and by using the constructor with no parameters you get iso-8859-1. Kevin