When folks tell me not to worry as in my previous query, then I really do get worried and try not to be hurried. (last clause not of semantic intent but scans well.) 8-) So a few points of clarification please. Will the Unicode version of UTF-8 be registered with IANA and, if so, what will be its "charset" designation? Is the following an accurate statement of the present situation? Currently, if an email client receives a message with "Content Type:" containing "charset=UTF-8" and accepts up to 6 octets for each scalar value, it would be considered "Unicode compliant." If it generated messages with "Content Type:" containing "charset=UTF-8" and complied with the IETF specification (RFC 2279) for generating UTF-8 8-bit values, it would not be considered "Unicode compliant." Bill Kurmey, Edmonton, AB, Canada

