> http://code.google.com/soc/p9/appinfo.html?csaid=79263BFBBBDEAE1B
i should have said "utf-8", not unicode. in any event, i've used utf-8 with sam on solaris, irix, aix and linux since 1991 or 1992. which is to say, there's nothing about unix per se that has ever prevented utf-8. one might need to mangle names for the system linker. i haven't tried. - erik