Encoding type of an input box?

Hi folks, Hoping to draw upon someone's slightly more vast knowledge than my own here. Some background. A user wishes to check the availability of a multilingual domain name, they enter the name in, say, GB encoding and select a GB extension. On the next page, I've detected the GB extension and output the appropriate <META> tag for the GB charset encoding. I'm also redisplaying the user's input in an identical form to the previous page. The problem is that the text in the input string is only showing normal rather than GB-encoded characters. Does anyone know how I can change the charset encoding type on an input box...? Jason -- Jason Murray jasonm@melbourneit.com.au Web Design Team, Melbourne IT Don't believe everything you're foretold.