note cr8josh <p>Very odd...I pasted your code in from the web, ran, and I get this output:</p> <code> This is a test of the 0 œ </code> <p>...and the following errors in my command window...</p> <code> Malformed UTF-8 error...(2 times, lines 24 and 26) Wide character in print at....line 27 Malformed UTF-8 error...at line 29</code> <p>I'm wondering if this is getting down to different systems...I'm on Windows 7...</p> 978515 978722