Sorry, your test program runs fine here in a Win2k virtual machine, against the latest GTK+ stack. What GLib version are you using? If you check Control Panel:Regional Options:General:Advanced, do you see an entry for code page 65001 (UTF-8)? --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list