Hi. Popt has apparently problems with unicode characters. I tried to include some in the descrip and argDescrip field of the option table, e.g. - either directly "foo“”bar" - or escaped "foo\u201c\u201dbar" and then using the auto help functionallity. popt reacts quite strangely sometimes it justs works and the characters are printed correctly, sometimes it however skips the unicode characters and all between them, but not necessarily for all the unicode characters used ie. "\u201cfoo\u201d bar \u201cbaz\u201d" may become bar “bar” when printed. Cheers, Chris.