On 2004-03-13 at 09:02:50, Karl Brodowsky wrote: > For these guys Unicode is not so attractive, because it kind of doubles the > size of their files,
Unicode per se doesn't do anything to file sizes; it's all in how you encode it. The UTF-8 encoding is not so attractive in locales that make heavy use of characters which require several bytes to encode therein, or relatively little use of characters in the ASCII range; but that's why there are other encoding schemes like SCSU which get you Unicode compatibility while not taking up much more space than the locale's native charset. -- Mark REED | CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlanta, GA 30348 USA | +1 404 827 4754
