That's an important enough fix that I might just have to turn off my longest running Haiku install and update it when this happens. It's currently at 31 days and still running... I'm all for fixing the w-char issue, will this fix any/all of the current wchar/special char tickets? such as: 215, 1855, 2334, 3012, 3659, 2191, 2696, 3390 Maybe Matt has a point of working this in a branch until we can address all the side issues such as optional package updates and such. Did you make any progress on hunting down #3308 IEEE floating point issue? -scottmc