Hi, what is the proper way to write Czech accented characters? I tried canvas,setfont( "Helvetica", 12 ) canvas.writestring( X, Y, "=EC=B9=E8=F8=BE=FD=E1=ED=E1=E9" ) but it outputs garbage instead of Czech accented characters. Helvetica is a standard font that comes with Acrobat Reader, I presume.=20 This problem appears on Czech MS Windows which contain Czech fonts. --=20 Milos Prudek