I am familiar with Unicode. Wikipedia assertions of this or that about it do not persuade me of much of anything. Moreover, as a review of the archives will show, I am an advocate of its use.
I have, however, found all of the UTF-8 implementations I have used both unsatisfactory and unreliable in the literal sense that conversions into UTF-8 from UTF-16 using them do not always yield the same results. If I have one, I suppose that English is my mother tongue; but, unlike some of you, my preoccupations ane not exclusively or even predominantly anglophone. I am a polyglot. There is no effective appeal from my determination that a passage from Leopardi, say, is mangled when it is converted/moved from UTF-16 to UTF-8 I have of course reported these anomalies to the appropriate Unicode bodies. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
