hi folks, feels rather like i've ventured into uncharted territory, but somebody out there somewhere must know the way.. i used wget to copy the entire http://nonviolentpeaceforce.org site to http://nvpf.org/np. the former is asp pages, the latter captured as html. for example, http://nonviolentpeaceforce.org/spanish/welcome.asp was captured to http://nvpf.org/np/spanish/welcome.asp.html as you can see, the capture is mostly fine, including spanish characters in the text (eg año), however the spanish characters in the menus didn't do quite so well (eg Misi?n) in the file año appears as año which is apparently "good", but Misi?n appears as Misión, which is apparently "bad". first question: why is that bad? if i tell galeon, instead of automatic encoding, use western iso-8859-1, or any of many others, presto, the page appears nicely. but i don't have to do that to see the original, nor do i have to do that for anybody else's pages, and of course i can't expect our audience to go and fiddle with that in their browsers. but really now, why isn't an ó an ó? right after the title the file says <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">. why isn't that good enough? do i need to change some directive or setting in apache? second question: it looks like wget was inconsistent! why? likely hint: the menus are rendered out of some .asp database or whatever, differently than the rest of the text of the page. but, so what? why didn't wget capture something identical to what my browser shows? the command i ran was wget -ENKkrl19 -nH -w2 -owget.log http://nonviolentpeaceforce.org so anyway i sez hey no problem, i'll just find and replace. well ha. couldn't get either egrep nor sed to find an ñ that was right under their noses. third question: what's the trick to find and replace these buggers? vim can find them, in interactive mode, so.. should i be trying to figger out how to use vim as a grep replacement.. uhh.. ..? fourth question: where should i be asking these questions, or, where do i look for the mysterical solution, and will i recognize it when i see it? tia, greg Greg Whitley Mott IT Coordinator NonviolentPeaceforce.org