On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:30 +0100, Klaus Winter wrote: > anymore. (currently I'm converting them back and forth to the value needed ) > I'm looking for a better of handling this: perhaps enabling functions like > wcscmp(...) to handle 2byte widecharacters. ( 2byte widecharacters are > NEEDED because of pointer arithmetic in the application ). Any help is > appreciated. Klaus, Probably not the answer you are looking for but you might want to look at icu from IBM. It is an open source tool to work with Unicode. -- Ken Foskey