Why don't you try to build your own [^]? :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

Vineet Kumar wrote: int nCodePage = 1252; Code page 1252 doesn't contain that character, so it translates to the nearest equivalent that is in hte code page - which is "d". Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Key type could be a set of variables inside a structure or class. valikac

Try using GDI+ , it can load png files. If u can Dream... U can do it

WideCharToMultiByte() MultiByteToWideChar() helps to convert 1byte -> 2byte and other way round data representation things

LPCWSTR wszUTF16 = L"\x7279"; char szUTF8[16] = {0}; WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, wszUTF16, -1, szUTF8, 16, NULL, NULL); --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ