Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote: > Could be, but that still leaves the trouble of decoding up to 6 byte > UTF8 encodings. Note that UTF-8 characters are never more than 4 bytes long. While the encoding would hypothetically use 6 bytes for a 32-bit character, Unicode characters are never more than 21 bits wide. -- Bradd W. Szonye http://www.szonye.com/bradd