This function is called with no arguments. It returns an integer containing the size of widechar with which liblouis was compiled. By default, widechar is 2 bytes, but liblouis can be compiiled with the size of widechar as 4 bytes. Lou_charSize simply returns this size. It has been pointed out that liblouis might be compiled with the larger size on some systems, notably those using puthon for Orca or NVDA. The new functionn will be useful in making bindings for other languages than C. It is in the svn repository. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com