Hi, At Sun, 4 Aug 2002 02:25:35 +0900, Ned Konz wrote: > Unicode is *defined* to be representable using 2-byte numbers. There > are provisions for using sequences of two (or more now?) of these > numbers to represent characters outside the basic 64K or so. There > are few applications that deal fully with these extended characters > ("surrogate pairs"?); Java (for instance) doesn't. I guess you mean UTF-16, one of variable length encodings, it would be supported by M17N ruby. -- Nobu Nakada