ARGH!!! I just wrote a long intrincate explanation, and this grrrr site sent me to the login page and deleted all of it! I'll try to rewrite, but not so fancy : (:

I had tried that clever trick of yours, just forgot to mention. Thing is, it parses alright in the dashboard, but I just see é in my blog. Besides, I don't think it's standard behaviour for a browser to reparse stuff - it woudn't be a smart way to operate.

BUT, I did find a workaround! And it's ugly! Moreso, 'cuz I think it pretty much evidentiates a problem in the blogspot atom server. Here is my workaround: - set the blog encoding to ISO-8859-1 - set my atom message header with encoding="ISO-8859-1" - send atom message with raw character (no ampersand stuff, just the plain 233 code character - an é) - change the blog's encoding back to UTF-8

That does the trick. My guess is the server is not interpreting what I send correctly, but when I change the encoding and republish, the publishing engine takes care of that and corrects all. Blogspot guys, am I completely mistaken? If so, please tell me, I really want to understand all this.

Tks for the attention!