Hi Gerd, This may be a platform specific problem. I am running on Windows. Notepad and Visual Studio say my file is UTF-8 encoded, but it fails to load with the accented character in it. It does load with the patch. Is there anyone else using Windows who can try the line? Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Gerd Petermann [mailto:GPetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com] Sent: 18 January 2017 13:52 To: Development list for mkgmap <mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] style file reader patch 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