> Unicode did not invent the notion of conformance to character > encoding standards. What is new about Unicode is that it has > *3* interoperable character encoding forms, not just one, and > all of them are unusual in some way, because they are designed > for a very, very large encoded character repertoire, and > involve multibyte and/or non-byte code unit representations.
Geez, even when I was going through my stage of inventing wild and crazy new UTF's, I made sure they were 100% convertible to and from code points. How could they not be? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/