RE: benefits of unicode

[Yves Arrouye]

> > The fact that a product supports Unicode and does not 
> support another
> > code
> > page used in some region, does not mean that the vendor
> > supports that region, nor does it mean if they decide to support the
> > region that it would be only with Unicode...
> 
> It DOES, however, underscore the fact that Unicode support is 
> so much easier [...]

It also usually means, at least for data holding applications, that even if
the product does not specifically support a given region, it will not
blindly destroy data from that region but may provide a neutral environment
for them. Which helps.

YA