Tony

That works great - thank you very much Tony

I get this too - but using php 5.28 If I switch the browser to UTF-8 the characters disappear. Would be nice to have a proper solution though.

I'm currently planning an application that will handle around 1000 of my users at any one time. Graphing will be an important aspect - and so I am evaluating fusion charts. Although we are a non profit, we will of course be buying the full version (I'm using the fusionfree to evaluate) Understandably, although I am running on a dedicated box (mainly cms/forum traffic)- I can't help but wonder of the impact that will be caused by people playing with there graphs (around 4 graphs per user on screen). My server is a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz(4 cpu), 6Gb Ram, 2x73gb Mirrored SCSI running Centos 4.3 64bit (Load Highest 1.60, Lowest 0.22, Mean: 0.61) Because the launch of this application will in all likelihood have wide media attention, we have to get this right. If I have to buy another server to host something like this then it would be nice to have a heads up now rather than at the last minute Does anyone else use fusion charts to this degree and would they mind sharing there experiences? Thanks, Tony *edit - I'm off on holiday for two weeks - so apologies if I don't answer until I return