Kostas Sfakiotakis kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 14. maaliskuuta 2006 01:35): > If i recall correctly utf-8 is an effort of making a uniform > way of representing English and Non-English as well . Technically, UTF-8 is a method of encoding the Unicode character set into variable-length codes (1-4 bytes for each Unicode character). Unicode is intended to cover all writing systems used in the world. > I don't > have the slightest idea whether it is a standard yet or not . Yes, ISO/IEC 10646 ( http://tinyurl.com/n54vp ) and the Unicode Standard: http://www.unicode.org/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Latest -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx