"Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com> writes: > the temporary solution is: > > #define UTF8_WHITESTAR " " > #define UTF8_BLACKSTAR "*" Instead I want to do this at runtime, depending on the OS. So for Windows XP only, basically. After all, it works fine on the OSs people are much more likely to run (XP is more than a decade old) /D