I downloaded icu-sword and will see what happens. The idea is to get the Visual C++ projects for "Win32 Release with ICU" and "Win32 Debug with ICU" configuration to compile/link. Good grief ... it was over 40 meg. Poor me with a POTS modem. > Yes. Check out icu-sword and compile the project in source/allinone/. > But the library will work fine without ICU. >