Hello, we are receiving faxes via Freeswitch, and while receiving an ESL event (hangup, rxfaxresult) we are storing the fax information into a database. We have some problems with some special characaters there (German Umlauts). While sending a Fax via Freeswitch and receiving via Freeswitch we always have the following (correctly) encoded string in the Freeswitch events, while grepping them on the network interface. variable_fax_ident: Mein-B%81ro where %81 represents the germany character "ΓΌ". But after evaluating this string in the Ruby(1.8) ESL library, this %81 is changed to mein-B%\3401ro, means "%81" is changed to "%\3401". I have looked into the code, but could not find any encoding change. Anybody has a hint, which encoding is used here, so we may encode it back? -- With kind regards Peter Steinbach Telefaks Services GmbH mailto:lists (att) telefaks.de Internet: www.telefaks.de