I'm using url-encode to encode strings that I use for keys (see e.g. <http://octopodial-chrome.com/tasting-notes/beer/Fuller%26rsquo%3Bs/2000%20Vintage%20Ale>; the brewer and beer name strings are both Unicode/HTML and contain characters meaningful in a URL). While running my pages through the w3c validator, I discovered that url-encode doesn't encode apostrophes ('), so now I run my strings through (cl-who:encode-string (hunchentoot:url-encode string)); is this the appropriate way to do things? It might be: url-encode turns a string into a string suitable for a URL and encode-string turns a string into a string suitable for an HTML attribute value. Still, it seems a bit...complex. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> I'm proud to be an old-fashioned bigoted unixoid. They'll take my keyboard away from me when they pry it from the shattered skulls of my enemies. --Mark Hughes