Definitely stick with UTF-8. It supports all the languages of UTF-16 but it is newer and smarter about byte storage. When more than one byte is needed to store a character such as a Japanese word mixed with English it "expands" and "contracts" byte sizes dynamically.

Carsten

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 01:57 am, David wrote:

I would suggest, that we stick to UTF-8, even though we might also have to think about supporting UTF-16 with all the languages in the asian areas we might come across. However this would depend greatly on what teh terminal the people are using can handle.

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