Hi All, Attached is a patch to ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm to get IO::File->open() to accept character encoding as one of the parameters when opening a file for read/write. make and make test were run successfully with this patch. If the patch is acceptable, i'd get some tests and add documentation reflecting these changes. thanks, -pradeep __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.comThread Next