Hi Thierry, your code : put unidecode(uniencode(thefilename,"utf8"),"ansi") 1) is very 'slow" since there are somtimes many lines in thefilename 2) is not fully translating the answer. There are further errors with çedilla, "œ",.. any other suggestion ?? Greetings. Yves COPPE yvescoppe at skynet.be