Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that we have the exact same problem with various European/American > encodings such as CP437, where IBM and Microsoft came up with radically > different and incompatible mappings If I'm not mistaken, at least one character in CP437 has even been reassigned. Older graphics hardware and printers interpret 0xe1 as U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA, and not as U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S, which can be quite annoying if you need the latter because the glyphs are clearly different. - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/