>Anyway, with the fix, there is no reason to prefer Unicode-based >local character sets, which is not widely used today, than existing >local character sets already used world wide. Of course there is. What do you do when someone wants to combine charsets from different nations? For example, say a Japanese man named Ohta married a Mexican woman whose paternal surname was Colón. Their child's full surname, if they lived in Mexico, would be "Ohta y Colón". If that child wants to spell their surname correctly, they can't use a just-European or just-Japanese character set; they probably need Unicode. /=================================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc. | |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own. | |=================================================================| |I imagine the wages of sin *are* death, but by the time they take| |taxes out it's just sort of a tired feeling. --Paula Poundstone | \=================================================================/