>Again you have fallen into the common underestimation of the upgrade work >required for ACE to work perfectly (including display). What I see is that >applications are already having some trouble going from ASCII and local >encoding to UTF. ACE in essence requires the conversion from local encoding >toUTF first and then toACE. I see trouble here... Yeah, but I suspect it's smaller than you think; once you've got UTF-8 in place, adding the UTF-8/ACE conversion would be a lot simpler. In any case, I don't think we can do without ACE, at least as a transition, which means that a later transition from ACE to UTF-8 wouldn't reduce the complexity much (you'd still need to talk to ACE-based servers). /===============================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc. | |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own. | |===============================================================| |If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well *dance*!| \===============================================================/