Now that liblouis is capable of handling UTF-8, it would be simple to extend the hyphenation feature to handle hyphenation tables written in UTF-8. How would I know that a table uses this encoding instead of Latin-1? Thanks, 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