my votes: 1.) +1 2.) +1 3.c) +1
BTW, more than 2.a, even the most up-to-date jdk (1.5.0_05) is not full UAX#14 compliant. It treat QU as (A) instead of (XB/XA). So we REALLY need a independent impl to follow the Unicode standard. __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com