Michael wrote: > Really? Kewl. Thought it was all just some Microsoft "Let's > pretty everything up so folks won't notice that 10-second to recalculate > spreadsheet back in MS-DOS, still takes 10 seconds in Win7" ideas. The "creators" of UTF-8 were Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, both formerly employed by Bell Labs They work for Google now. If you don't recognize the names, Ken Thompson was one of the creators of Unix. Yes, UTF-8 is a good thing for a few reasons, and it is a superset of ASCII. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF_8 -- Chris
