On Monday 12 July 2004 08:58 am, Richard Drummond wrote: >If anybody can point > me towards some documentation that can prove or disprove this theory, I'd > be grateful. I'll answer myself here. I just did another search and came up with: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/SystemOverview/FileSystem/chapter_8_section_6.html Now that's the first helpful documentation I've come across relative to this problem. ;-) Okay. I think I now how to solve this now. I was wrong before. The OS X libc does support UTF-8 (and HFS+ actually uses UTF-16 internally). So if the UAE virtual filesystem handler does the ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 translation, then I think this should work. Cheers, Rich