Dear Jose Nazario, JN> te file you sent here contains a bunch of embeded nulls (every other JN> character is 00). stripping those out reveals ... ________ jose JN> nazario, ph.d. http://monkey.org/~jose/ This is Little Endian UCS-2 Unicode, not a bunch of embedded nulls. Never stop to educate yourself. -- ~/ZARAZA http://securityvulns.com/