Wikipedia says that notepad always puts a BOM at the begining of the file when it saves as utf-8. This appears as an odd character at the beginning of the file to Java programs.
I can add code to skip it. ..Steve _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev