"Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak at polip.com> writes: > Originally function get_word operates with signed char and compares it > numerically with SPACE to check, if this character may be part of > word. It is true only for 7-bit characters, accented letters (with > most significant bit set) will be treated as negative Hi, Yes, I see the problem. How should get_word be rewritten? Your patch does a lot of casting. Could we eliminate all that with a get_u_char function, or similar? -- Chris