| Anyone interested in Unicode support in Hugs (what it lacks so far) | please check out this URL: | | http://www.golubovsky.org/software/hugs-patch/article.html There was a serious error in that page, which I can no longer reach. The number of defined characters in Unicode was grossly underestimated, because the number of *lines* in the Unicode database was counted, instead of the number of *characters*. Here's a summary of UnicodeData.txt as it stood in January 2001. 6582 <CJK Ideograph Extension A> 20902 <CJK Ideograph> 11172 <Hangul Syllable> 896 <Non Private Use High Surrogate> 128 <Private Use High Surrogate> 1024 <Low Surrogate> 6400 <Private Use> 65534 65534 10603 singletons 10621 records, all told. The number of *lines* is 10,621; the number of *characters* (excluding surrogates and private use areas) is 49,259. Since then, Unicode has got a lot bigger. The current version of Unicode is 4.0.0. According to http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ it has 96,248{%} graphic characters plus 265 format, control, and "noncharacter" characters (not counting private use, surrogate, and reserved codes). This is a _lot_ more than the www.golubovsky.org article envisaged. {%} Yes, this does mean that "Unicode is 16 bits" is dead. That idea has been dead for quite some time now, although the rotting corpse "lives" on in Java.