note Anonymous Monk <p><i>open it in Notepad, and save it as 'ANSI' instead of 'Unicode' before my script will work right.</i><p> You probably shouldn't do that :) save as UTF-8 instead <p> iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 < in > out <p> [mod://piconv] -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 < in > out 868428 995682 0