-=> Quoting Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> Frankly, I think we should just go to Unicode. 

 JdBP> By Unicode I presume you mean UCS-2.  That would mean a new PKT file
 JdBP> format, of course.  It would also be highly inefficient for text that
 JdBP> was mostly ISO 8859-1, since every other byte would be zero. 

I've been told there's a format where you give an "intro code" that IDs
the character subset, (essentially that first byte) and then only have
to use 16-byte chars for stuff that *isn't* in that set. Sort of a
"condensed mode"

Also, from what I've seen of Unicode, a message that was in full 16-bit
format and mostly *ASCII* is where the high byte would be zero. The
characters present in ISO 8859-1 that aren't present in ASCII are
spread over *several* unicode "sets".


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