Thanks for all the answers. Since I need a UTF-8 Posix regex, I'll probably grab the one from glibc. -- David Starner - starner@xxxxxxxxxxx "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/