>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes: Bryce> So the JDK, and by extension, javac, have their own character Bryce> converters, probibly written in Java, and thus don't need Bryce> iconv? I believe so. Bryce> What does jikes do? I don't know. I'm guessing that it uses IBM's C++-based i18n toolkit. I forget what that is called. Tom