>> >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 >> 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). >> >There are no ACE-based servers. the current servers can already handle ACE! Fine. But you were talking about the complexity on the client side. A UTF-8 transition would add complexity on the client, not reduce it, because the client would then have two cases to consider: servers that support UTF-8, and those that don't. /==============================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc. | |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own. | |==============================================================| |The Net regards censorship as damage, and routes around it. --| |John Gilmore | \==============================================================/