Take a look at: ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/i18N/utf16/ugcc-2.95.2 which proposes UTF-16 support in GCC. I believe they are after getting it into gcc and then put it on standard track somewhere. roozbeh - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/