1) Removed the code to remove {} from sub_read_line_ssa 2) Put this code in a separated function: sub_pp_ssa 3) After recoding added a call to sub_pp_ssa. To be more acqurate: I added a pointer to function to hold a postprocessing function to be invoked after using iconv. There are one pointer for each format, if this pointer isn.t NULL the post processing function is called. patch by Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar> help by <hephooey@fastmail.fm>