This is a response to a question Michael asked in a reply to Paul's request for help. If UCS2 (the default) is used widechar is 16-bit unicode. If UCS4 is used widechar is 32-bit unicode. 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, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com