Just saying "unicode" is not enough to display "Ohta y Col_n" with
japanese local unicode-based character set.
Unicode is not useful in international context.
Most disagreements would disappear if all parties had identical
information in their posession. I belive that Unicode would cope with such
a situation. If your transmission medium supports 8-bit characters, I see
no problem in transmitting groups of octets representing Unicode glyphs
over that same medium, if proper information about this is provided in a
header. The last time I checked, UTF-? was a method of encapsulating the
full Unicode character set in a medium capable of carrying less bits.
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Thor Harald Johansen
thorhj(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com