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Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes: > It's a strict subset of UTF-8, isn't it? Except that the null character (not null byte as the JVM book incorrectly says ...) is encoded with two bytes instead of one. Thus you can have nul-terminated strings with embedded nuls. > (I am off to Quantum Books tomorrow to purchase the Unicode standard, > so I will be able to answer such questions with something better than > rumors...) It is not necessarily going to make much difference in what you do, but it's a neat book to have and browse, with a lot of information. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner