One possibility to encode all non-ASCII characters is to use UTF-7[^]: encode: Encoding.ASCII.GetString(Encoding.UTF7.GetBytes(text)) decode: Encoding.UTF7.GetString(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(encodedString)) modified on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 10:55 AM

There is no alternative other than converting all managed c++ syntax to c++/cli if u need to compile it with /clr new syntax. cheers...milton Kb