New versions of my UTF-aware wc, fmt, expand, and unexpand for UNIX are available from: http://www.pobox.com/~Alan.Watson/software/utftools-1.6.tar.gz You will need Alistair Crooks libutf library, which can be obtained from: http://www.westley.demon.co.uk/software.html The major change has been to add basic functionality checks (invoked by make check). Hopefully, that should guard against a repeat performance of the problems with v1.5, for which I apologise. Alan Watson