The biggest problem I ran into trying to make the IDE fully unicode compatible was that it's not supported in the FRM (and other UI) files. Actually, it's not supported for string literals in BAS files either. Without those things, even if we re-write custom property windows, we're just never really going to get there. And, the code windows will never be Unicode either. Maybe that's the biggest problem, as we could rewrite all the controls to save Unicode properties in the FRX (and ..X) associated files. So, maybe it's the BAS files and code editor window that are the biggest hard-road-blocks.