Anything is possible, it's more a matter of importance. I may be wrong, but I'm not sure there are that many UTF-16 BE files floating around on Windows machines. Requiring a BOM in the C compiler, the resource compiler, and several other tools, simplifies the input code considerably. Possibly I could add UTF-16 BE (and more) to the IDE, so it would at least be possible to resave the file in a 'compiler friendly' encoding...