>Thanks for analyzing this problem. I understand that the problem
>is a side effect of your support for multi-byte characters.
>However, I believe that support for multi-byte characters should be
>an option in CINT (selected at execution time possibly).
>The default should be to accept all one-byte characters.
It may be too late to change default behavior. I can provide an option
to accept all one-byte characters.
Masaharu Goto