FWIW - The serialization library xml archive reads utf-8 encoded text. It uses a wide stream with a utf-8 codecvt facet to generate wchar_t characters from the original utf-8. This in turn is processed by spirit without problem. Robert Ramey "HT4N -" wrote in message news:BAY128-W3206D66F9B0860B44474789C00@phx.gbl... Is it possible to customize the scanner in Spirit to parse UTF-8 characters? I can't seem to find any notes in the documentation specific to handling UTF-8 encoding. Thanks HT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users