On 11/12/05, John W. Kennedy <jwkenne / attglobal.net> wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > This is, in fact, far > > *superior* to what Java and Python do -- which are limited to UTF-8 > > string representations (AFAIK). > Java has /always/ used UTF-16 internally, and currently has the ability > to read and write US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16BE (big-endian) > UTF-16LE (little-endian), and UTF-16 (byte-order marked) at a minimum, > plus whatever other encodings the implementor chooses to add. (Sun Java > for Windows includes a total of 148.) That's good to know. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca