Edmon Chung wrote: >If we collectively decide that it is NEVER going to happen and we >will stay with ACE FOREVER, then, we should stop here and live happily ever >after with ACE. But if the general direction or consensus is to move >towards UTF8 eventually, then, we should start the work now. That does not follow. A UTF-8 transition would take a very long time (your idea about "plugins" is nonsense; there is no plugin architecture that can solve this problem for every app--probably not even for any app), so we need a good ACE solution for at least the next 5-10 years. Starting on a UTF-8 plan would consume resources that could better go into making the ACE solution work. /========================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc.| |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own.| |========================================================| |"Music is not a noun, it's a verb." --John Perry Barlow | \========================================================/