On Thu October 30 2003 07:49, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > leaking between two non-Latin > enclaves is where the rubber meets the road, Specifically, two enclaves with *different* non-Latin character sets. (Probably what you meant, but....) > I've worked with too many smart people from Asia/Pacific and > from the Middle East to believe that we wouldn't have two > non-Latin enclaves who would be collaborating about fifteen > minutes after the second enclave starts up... Exactly. The developinging friendship between Israel and India, two tech powerhouses using radically different non-Latin character sets, should be quite interesting in many ways, including this. For that matter, even within India, there are several (somewhere in the teens, IIRC) languages widely used. Can someone tell us, how many different character sets these languages use? -- Dave Aronson, Senior Software Engineer, Secure Software Inc. Email me at: work (D0T) 2004 (@T) dja (D0T) mailme (D0T) org Web: http://destined.to/program http://listen.to/davearonson