Hmm... I think I agree with your assessment here: the boundarychar is an encoding, not a metrics issue. This might be something that's so old that it's become a `feature' though... Alan. -- Alan Jeffrey, CTI, DePaul University, 243 S Wabash, Chicago IL 60604 ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu http://klee.cs.depaul.edu/ajeffrey/