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Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes: > There is some > "pallette switching" byte version of Unicode, isn't there? Never heard of it. Older ISO standards use escape sequences to switch character encodings, but Unicode is basically state-less. Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes: > I tend to think that UTF-8 would be a good choice. However I'm not > fully aware of all the issues surrounding the choice of encoding. > Still, isn't that what Java uses? Java uses (a minor variant of) UTF-8 in class files. However, internally String objects uses "UCS-2" - i.e. a fixed 16 bits per character. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner