There is an article http://dot.kde.org/1186422013/ which might be of interest to Sword developers. It's about text rendering and includes ICU (which Sword uses), SIL (which everyone here should know), Qt, unicode fonts... Yours, Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)