Hi Mike, I am not able to reproduce the problem. I've added the line to the default style points file and mkgmap doesn't complain about it. My editor (PSPad) "says" that the points file is a utf-8 encoded unix file, a hex editor shows no BOM. Gerd ________________________________________ Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Mike Baggaley <mike@tvage.co.uk> Gesendet: Samstag, 14. Januar 2017 23:21:22 An: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] style file reader patch Hi Gerd, I have found that the style file reader does handle non ASCII characters properly. With the following line in my points file: amenity=cafe & name~'[Cc]af[eé]' {echotags 'Description as name'; delete name} I get an error: Error in style : error : (points:142): Bad character in input, file probably not in utf-8 This happens whether or not I save the points file as UTF-8. The attached patch fixes the problem. Can you please try it and commit if it is OK (you may want to change the RuntimeException)? Thanks, Mike