BP> So why anyone is pretending to need Unicode is beyond me.

   One good reason is, that there can never be a mix-up anywhere between
different character sets. The old ones are so many, that we're bound to get
into trouble:


  ASCII       ISO 646-1 (US ASCII)
  DUTCH       ISO 646 Dutch
  FINNISH     ISO 646-10 (Swedish/Finnish)
  FRENCH      ISO 646 French
  CANADIAN    ISO 646 Canadian
  GERMAN      ISO 646 German
  ITALIAN     ISO 646 Italian
  NORWEIG     ISO 646 Norwegian
  PORTU       ISO 646 Portuguese
  SPANISH     ISO 646 Spanish
  SWEDISH     ISO 646-10 (Swedish/Finnish)
  SWISS       ISO 646 Swiss
  UK          ISO 646 UK
  ISO-10      ISO 646-10 (Depriciated alias)
  CP437       IBM codepage 437 (DOS Latin US)
  CP850       IBM codepage 850 (DOS Latin 1)
  CP852       IBM codepage 852 (DOS Latin 2)
  CP866       IBM codepage 866 (Cyrillic Russian)
  CP848       IBM codepage 848 (Cyrillic Ukrainian)
  CP1250      Windows, Eastern Europe
  CP1251      Windows, Cyrillic
  CP1252      Windows, Western Europe
  CP10000     Macintosh Roman character set
  LATIN-1     ISO 8859-1 (Western European)
  LATIN-2     ISO 8859-2 (Eastern European)
  LATIN-5     ISO 8859-9 (Turkish)
  LATIN-9     ISO 8859-15 (Western Europe with EURO sign)
  IBMPC       IBM PC character sets for European
  +7_FIDO     IBM codepage 866, use CP866 instead
  MAC         Macintosh character set, use CPxxxxx instead


   But there can be only one UTF-8...

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