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Per Bothner scripsit: > (2) a fixed number of bytes in a file - if so immediately fire anybody > who writes any new applications doing this! (And "legacy" applications > will not support Unicode.) I meant this case. New applications frequently have to process old data, and may not wish to treat the file content as a pure octet vector when it is in fact meant to be interpreted as characters. -- Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead John Cowan of the Open Source movement. cowan@xxxxxxxx --Bruce Perens, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan some years ago http://www.reutershealth.com