In message <486AD3BC.1040706@nycap.rr.com>, Kevin Kenny <kkenny2@nycap.rr.com> writes
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
[1] Yes, there are a few languages other than English whose script only needs 7-bit ASCII. Of course, English is not one of them. It would be naïve to think otherwise. English has a handful of words that need récherché characters. ASCII presents an adequate façade, but my 2¢ worth is that English also benefits from Unicode™.
Indeed, since I don't have an encyclopædiac knowledge of such usages, merely a mental list of examples, I couldn't disagree with you.
My only request is to give a bit of warning. Right now, I have the Tcl version of ZIC coded to expect the input files to be Latin-1. It's a one-line change to make them UTF-8, but it's important to know *when* to make it.
If I've read the updates correctly, all non-ASCII characters have been removed. So this might be a good time to declare that UTF-8 is the rule for the future. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Internet Expert | Work: <clive@demon.net> Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 | Demon Internet | Home: <clive@davros.org> Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Thus plc | Web: <http://www.davros.org> Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: <clive@demon.net>