Marcel > Frank, I am trying right now (after being away for a while) to update > the multilingual encodings summary. I think you have hinted at > imperfections of Unicode more than once. Do you have any concrete > points that are interesting/relevant to this discussion, which I could > add to the document? I am sending you privately a paper that Frank and I wrote about this a few years ago. I doubt if this covers everything Frank and/or I would say now about it but it is a start, and much of it is relevant to multi-lingual documants in gneral. chris