> i understand spanish but that is not the solution just the > problem :-) Agree. iconv functions are now provided by the glibc, however, on older systems or on system that don't use the glibc (ie not linux), there is libiconv available from gnu ftp site. In case, try installing it, it shouldn't hurt. Cheers, -- Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> http://www.xfce.org