>because when i input as well as display the VN
>characters (of course except for input text) with this
>encoding all VN characters are displayed
>correctly!!!!!(while using other eg. utf-8 some are
>not correct)

Try using a Vietnamese encoding e.g. VISCII.  I presume your html will be viewed by Vietnamese localized web browsers that will probably understand vietnamese encodings better then utf-8.

Edward Middleton

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