After investigating a bit more, it turns out that MSVC 7 compiler chokes on optimizing some parts of the code (at least the /Og option seems to produce invalid code). But even in non-optimized, debug-mode there are still problems with the unicode support. Especially, the following chars : $(D+1+"+2(B are reported to be of iso-latin8859-14 (where -15 would have make gnus happier) and the c-cedilla : $(D+.(B is reported to be of ipa charset. Help is needed there (but I'm still investigating) -- Fabrice Popineau ------------------------ e-mail: Fabrice.Popineau(a)supelec.fr | The difference between theory voice-mail: +33 (0) 387764715 | and practice, is that surface-mail: Supelec, 2 rue E. Belin, | theoretically, F-57070 Metz | there is no difference !