anatoli <anatoli@yahoo.com> writes: > Dependence on the current locale is EXTREMELY inconvenient. > Imagine that you're writing a Web browser. Web browsers get input with MIME declarations, and shouldn't rely on *any* default setting. Instead, they should read [Word8] and decode the contents according to Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants