Glynn Clements
Right now, the attempt at providing I18N "for free", by defining Char to mean Unicode, has essentially backfired, IMHO. Anything that isn't ISO-8859-1 just doesn't work for the most part, and anyone who wants
Basically, I'm inclined to agree with what you say. A minor point is that the other ISO-8859 encodings (or really, any single-byte encoding) works equally well, as long as you don't want to mix them. So I guess you really want to say "Anything that isn't a single-byte encoding..." (Except for string constants, I guess, but perhaps you could just use its byte representation in the source? The length could be slightly surprising, though.) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants