Hi again all, I noticed this post from matz: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/20111 and am happy to hear there's non-ascii path support on win32, and a bit shamed that I didn't offer up patches in time for them to be useful. I'm curious, does anyone have a robust set of test cases that excercise wide path support? are there any built into the interpreter distribution? very best, lloyd