Hi. >> > if the file is utf8 i received the following error when i run gtk-demo>>>> I doubt it being UTF-8 was the core problem here, but simply that the>> syntax was wrong?>> MS Windows software tends to put BOM into UTF-8 files, with all the> unplesant consequences. This looks like one of them...>> Yeti I agree with Yeti. Notepad++ also offers option to store file as UTF-8without BOM. Things should work then. -- Tadej Borovšaktadeboro.blogspot.comtadeboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com_______________________________________________gtk-list mailing listgtk-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list