Well, I wouldn't say it is "Solved". I think that this is a real issue. I use a textarea field for non-us addresses. The user has to put in hard returns. What can be done to solve this. Is it a programing issue? Is it a charset issue? UTF-8? What are you guys (other users) doing in regard to this? I just hate having to go thru and edit each of the textarea fields to delete all of the hard returns. Thanks Mark