[Tim stating that we need 8 digits to mimic C99's \U notation due to the ISO 10646 UCS-4 stuff.] Heh, I suppose. ISO has approved the following document for the next rev of 10646 though. "Proposal to restrict the range of code positions to the values up to U-0010FFFF": http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2175.htm FYI, Bill