FYI Paolo here's the extension use to double check the UTF-8 encoding. -benjamin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: codecvt_test-3.cc Type: text/x-c++src Size: 1174 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/libstdc++/attachments/20070420/b3f54c85/attachment.bin>