If you want to see UTF-8 in action there are some good samples by Markus Kuhn. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/quickbrown.txt http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt How do those display in your favorite text viewer/editor? Have you had to install extra fonts? -- Denis Jacquerye --- http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo