> Just saying "unicode" is not enough to display "Ohta y Col_n" with > japanese local unicode-based character set. > Unicode is not useful in international context. Most disagreements would disappear if all parties had identical information in their posession. I belive that Unicode would cope with such a situation. If your transmission medium supports 8-bit characters, I see no problem in transmitting groups of octets representing Unicode glyphs over that same medium, if proper information about this is provided in a header. The last time I checked, UTF-? was a method of encapsulating the full Unicode character set in a medium capable of carrying less bits. -- Thor Harald Johansen thorhj@yahoo.com