Next week I'll try to rebuild Ruby with Unicode strings. But it would be nice if Ruby sources use IBM's "International Components for Unicode" <http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/index .html> I really need it, 'cause I'm Russian-speaker. I need everytime convert commandline arguments and filenames between encodings ( via additional methos of rb_cString I already added ). Aleksei Guzev