> in the long term most likely yes, but how many of the
> people on this list can easily (in their favorite editing system) edit or
> generate a utf8 encoded file? hands up?

me: emacs20 + mule-ucs.

        http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
        ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/

The UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux:
        http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

Karsten
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