Excellent. No, I tried RPCEmu yesterday with the ROOL IOMD RO5.15 image. I was quite impressed, actually! But it's a fair way off being usable, you're right. It does seem like the Font Manager would be the place to tackle this. Perhaps it could have a sort of 'intelligent' mode where it tries to detect if strings being sent to it are properly encoded, and alter the encoding if it detects otherwise. I suppose it would have to be quite simple logic, though, or the overheads would be too great. Hmm...another tricky situation arising to try to keep legacy code running as the OS moves forward! Thanks for the pointers (and thanks Michael for the Zap version info). I'm running Zap 1.47 at the moment, and have a bitmap font containing a good deal of the glyphs necessary for Japanese. Sadly, I think I'll be doing this on Windows though, as without an input engine, Zap can't help me much ;-) I'll get back to you once I have something useful. Thanks, wpb