On 9/12/2009 2:04 PM, Kamyar Navidan wrote: > I had the same problem with cmd.exe. Seemingly it cannot emit utf-8. I > solved this problem by using Power Shell (win7). It appears there is only ascii in your example. I think you are just hitting the different quoting rules of cmd.exe - specifically, single quotes are not special and double quotes must be "doubled" to be quoted. So something like: % curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/test/ -d "{""title"":""There is Nothing Left to Lose"",""artist"":""Foo Fighters""}" Will work. HTH, Mark