Todd Benson wrote: > The lowest common denominator for language is US-ASCII (is that a good > thing or bad thing? You decide). Aside from any language bias: the language of this list/group is certainly English, which does just well in ASCII. So IMHO we wouldn't loose much by falling back to that in case of some iconv errors. At least certainly not as much as it'd be worth extraneous effort to work around. mortee