Hello. I try to use Encode.pm on perl 5.7.1 (v5.7.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, Released on 10th April 2001) but decode('shiftjis',$bytes) (or other multibyte charset) doesn't work. Though I don't know whether this problem has already been settled, I (try to) fix this... The following is 'diff' for Encode/Tcl.pm. ========================= 113c113 < my $rep = $obj->can("rep_$type"); --- > my($rep, @leading); 124a125 > $leading[$page] = 1 if $page; 134c135 < my $uch = chr($val); --- > my $uch = pack('U', $val); # chr($val); 147a149,150 > $rep = $type ne 'M' ? $obj->can("rep_$type") : > sub { ($_[0] > 255) || $leading[$_[0]] ? 'n' : 'C'}; 160c163 < sub rep_M { ($_[0] > 255) ? 'n' : 'C' } --- > #sub rep_M { ($_[0] > 255) ? 'n' : 'C' } 166c169 < $obj-{'Rep'}->($ch); --- > $obj->{'Rep'}->($ch); ========================= and I've check 'encode' and 'decode' for 'shiftjis' and 'cp932' work. (I found mapping of shiftjis.enc differs from that of Unicode's EASTASIA/JIS/SHIFTJIS.txt by 3 codepoints.) Regards, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/