Hello everybody. The first beta of UTF-8 CPP 2.0 , a library that I plan to submit to Boost (please see earlier posts this month on a utf-8 library) is out. The main reason I would like you look at it is that iterator adapters are added in this verson: find them here (the checked one): http://utfcpp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/utfcpp/v2_0/source/utf8/checked.h? revision=72&view=markup and here (the unchecked one): http://utfcpp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/utfcpp/v2_0/source/utf8/unchecked.h... revision=72&view=markup Please note that UTF CPP is not "boostified", but rather a standalone library, unlike the version I submitted to the Sandbox earlier. Once again, thank you for the input I received already - it helps me a lot. Nemanja Trifunovic