Hello Martin, Thank you for your coments. I agree with your comment regarding character set name. I read though RFC 1554 before. It includes JIS X 0212, however, it is not clear for me about the concept of ISO-2022-JP-2. Could you someone tell me about the story of this RFC 1554? Thank you, Ken Tamaru, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond. E-mail: kenzat@microsoft.com