> From: Ben Wing [mailto:ben＠666.com] [cool mappings yanked for space] Ah, ok, then its most likely a simple 1-1 mapping based on the EUDC CodeRange data in the registry. In which case you can't depend on a hardwired mapping. (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\EUDCCodeRa nge) Is there any particular reason this method of encoding isn't a good enough extension for unassigned UTF-16 safe ranges, or do you just not want to bother touching the code when we discover the loads of alien races that are out there? Bill