On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:42:07AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > for what would we need iconv? for iso8859-1 -> utf8 we just need a > 128 entry table to convert the high 128 chars You need a lookup table to map 128->128, 129->129, 130->130, ..., 255->255?? Last I checked y=x worked just fine for that... Rich