Moin, moin! I still recognized, that a Ruby program encoded in UTF-8 with BOM (standard unter Windows) still has problems when using Ruby 1.8.6 under Windows, while the problem is fixed for Ruby 1.9. Will there be a fix for future Ruby 1.8.x versions or will this problem occur in future Ruby 1.8 releases too? Wolfgang NĂ¡dasi-Donner -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.