Russell, MULTIBYTE CHARS, ETC This linking problem that you talk about is totally outside my experience, knowledge and understanding. However, I believe that so far as translations of message is concerned, there should not be a problem unless you are constructing complex messages from parts or substituting parameters into strings. If necessary, I can help with code to solve these sorts of problems, but in point of fact, Delphi is fairly helpful in this area. QUESTIONS : UNICODE, DEFLATE64, BZIP2 Does anyone know if there is a unicode standard for zip archives? I did a quick search with Google but only found one slightly informative hit being http://www.xceedzip.com/ This mentions the ability to store unicode file names in the zip archive. This site also talks about a new compression method called BZip2. Does anyone know anything about this? I've heard of Deflate64 - does this mean that there are now two zip formats that we cannot read?