Sorry for being off topic, but I am looking for multiple examples for code points, within the basic multilingual plane, and outside the BMP, which are NOT assigned by the current Unicode version used by perl, for perl testing. Thanks Olga -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / http://twitter.com/fleyta \ |-..-'` /\/\ Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer /\/\ `--` `--`Thread Next