Roland, Sorry to muddy the waters. It would be really nice if we could assume UTF-8 for everything. HTML entities are not very readable except when using a browser!
As part of the https hostname verification I've been working on, I've been testing with some UTF-8 in the hostname. I would really prefer to just write "花子.co.jp" directly in the javadocs instead of "花& #x5b50;.co.jp". Can we assume UTF-8 for everything, but try to stick to the 0-127 range of UTF-8 if at all possible (to be polite)? -- yours, Julius Davies 416-652-0183 http://juliusdavies.ca/
