http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2004/08/07/210769.aspx...or how HTML editor handles file encoding. First, Visual Studio is a Unicode application and actually even supports Unicode Surrogates Pairs . Most of Web pages, however, are not stored in Unicode. Therefore when opening a Web page VS has to figureen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2004/08/07/210769.aspx#524005Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:42:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:524005DimitrisMister, You are God! <br/>Thank you thank you thank you so very much for this article. <br/>I am using Visual Web Developer 2005. All my aspx pages contain Greek characters. I had tried everything: meta tag, globalization in web.config. No result. I then saw the f*** &quot;auto-detect utf-8 encoding without signature&quot; and got suspicious about vs doing black magic behind my back. But then still again, shit and hell. I then read your post and figured out what really goes on with file encodings and vs. <br/> <br/>cheers <br/>dimitris