Now MASR_NWE contains ALPHA code for support NLS. This support is not based on standard libc definitions for some reasons (the most important is that libc cannot handle two encodings). This complex scheme was designed especially for support of ex-USSR (where for historical reasons in DOS world cyrillic letters has other codes then in Linux world ;) Really now this code was tested only on one comp (sch57.mccme.ru ;) with following combination of codepages: external (DOS) encoding -- cp866, internal (Linux) encoding -- KOI8-R. With this option enabled all NAMES of files (not contents yet) will be converted before storing on disk from external encoding (cp866 in our case) to internal encoding and converted backword when directory will be scanned... Also filenames will be converted to lowercase if you set the 'k' options and converted to uppercase if you not set both 'k' options and 'i' options in section 1 (volumes). For support all this transformations you must create four tables (in one file, one after one): first -- for converting from extenal encoding to internal, second -- reversed table, third -- for doing UPCASE in external encoding and tha last -- for doing lowercase in external encoding. There are now three good start point: 1. nw.ini.cnv.min -- only ASCII table supported (good starting point) 2. nw.ini.cnv.437 -- for default linux and charset 3. nw.ini.cnv.cyr -- external encoding -- cp866, internal -- koi8-r You can edit this files with any editor, which can handle BINARY file (I know that joe and mcedit do so). P.S. I think about converting CONTENTS of files automatically, but I think that this MUST be option in section 1 for such conversion... khim@sch57.mccme.ru