From: "KUSANO Takayuki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > This is only a problem for people who do not want to use Unicode.
>
> But, most people can't live without 'legacy' encodings, because
> there are many documents, data in 'legacy' encodings and there are
> stille many applications/terminals that cannot handle Unicode
> correctly.
>
> So some encoding conversion is still needed at some stage.
Agreed.
And the only time it makes sense is very early on, where a system has a
reasonable chance of correctly understanding the data for the purpose of
conversion.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/