Hi, In Windows both the WinHugs "fake" console and the standard console are already unicode compliant on NT/2K/XP and have wrapper functions such as wprintf which are unicode and tprintf which is either ASCII or Unicode depending on some #define's. How does Hugs deal with unicode, i.e. are the filenames etc. stored by the program as unicode, or is it just the Haskell elements that are Unicode. Attatched is a patch which includes the unicode compliant header along with commented out definitions for unicode in WinHugs. If you uncomment those definitions it will not work, but then I can work on converting files one by one and when they are all done hopefully a Unicode enabled Hugs on windows will result :) This process should not alter the non unicode code paths at all, beause of various defines in Windows. Thanks Neil