Thanks john.

>>> You should ask Sophie team, their knowledge certainly is far more
>>> advanced than mine.
>> 
>> The problem is that most of them disappeared after the java rewrite announce.
> 
> Ok, well it's not as if we disappeared from the planet... 
> 
> The UTF8 work came out of work done on the OLPC/eToys, check with Bert
> 
> You need to carefully check that some of the UTF8 encoders/decoder methods, 
> or classes actually DO make UTF8 
> One of them lied and did a UTF8ToMacRoman or was that UTF8ToLatin1 conversion 
> when it claimed a UTF8ToUnicode32. 

Argh!

So we should really find a way to rescue what was done in sophie.

> In Sophie because we wrote it's own storage subsystem we could ensure that 
> all textual data going to storage was UTF8, and
> all text coming in was UTF8->WideStrings.   Also all references to external 
> resources were made into URI that were UTF8 and http encoded safe.
> Mind we did have a tiny disagreements at times about unicode characters and 
> encoding in URLs between Safari and FireFox, never was quite 
> sure who had the bug.
> 
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