On 2/14/08, Gerald Dachs <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@dachsweb.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu@dachsweb.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> That is not a stupid question, but I am not sure whether I have the right answer. Beside a small entry page made with cmsimple, I use the server only for my web mail client IMP and Squirrelmail, the esniper front end es-f MailZu for spam quarantine, AvantFax for faxing and ajaxterm for a javascript shell. The default installation has no problems with the german umlauts, so I haven't seen your problem. I have found only this in the config file: lighttpd.conf:dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8" </blockquote> Hi Gerald, If you say you don't have problems with the German umlauts *and* if you also have that line stating dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"... I guess this answers my problem! That's the only goddamn extra "feature" I need from a web server, to allow me to specify utf-8 as the encoding used in the directory listings :-) Thanks again for the hint, I'll keep on trying a little bit more with apache (including asking on their mailing lists what's wrong) and if that won't help... I might as well try lighttpd (after all... the whole OSS concept *is* about alternatives, actually). Thank you, Alex.