JavaFan...I mean every file that can be encoded to UTF-8 encode to UTF-8. That way you don't have to rewrite everything because of issues with conversion. I have so many non-UTF-8 files that a manual by hand approach to conversion won't fly. However, because UTF-8 files don't talk to my non-UTF-8 files well, I have to do it all at once. I also can't figure out why UTF-8 scripts can't find files on my computer. If I had initially written my code and data files in UTF-8, I would have found these problems ages ago. However, since I didn't, I am just finding them now, when my code runs very deep. Finding where the problems are is nearly impossible. I have tried to trace the problems, and I can't find them.