On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:18:00PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > I'm not sure that 2 is a valid assumption. We're using UTF-8 for the > Unix charset, and a multi-byte character can be as much as 6 bytes. _after_ reencoding to UCS2 the length of string in characters will be (bytes length)/2. -- / Alexander Bokovoy --- Wanna buy a duck?