Charles I do not think you read my post at all carefully.
I made it clear that for specific language pairs UTF-8 is adequate if often clumsy. For multiple-language environments it is equally clear that it is inadequate. It is of course true that any grapheme, even say some company's logo or an astrological house, can be represented in UTF-8. The problem is not one of representability but of subset choice. The decision to include one may preclude the inclusion of another. Some subsets of at most 256 characters are adequate to some particular tasks and others are adequate to other particular tasks. None is adequate to all such tasks. Moreover, in my now considerable controversial experience I have noted that people who assert that 1) the real meaning of some word is what they want it to be or 2) that a battle is pretty much over and their side has won are are arguing hopefully, trying to convince others, not recording the judgment of history. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
