On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote: > You have to use %z to match embedded nulls; a unexpected lesson I > learnt long ago. Thanks, I _knew_ it had something to do with z ;) Well then I can escape 000円 as %z, but only for 5.1 steve d.