I wrote: > Further, by doing so we are creating again a closed system > using its own conventions with no links with external tools adapted > to Unicode. I will be able to process a file and extract information > from it with, say, Python very easily if they use a known representation > (iso encodings or Unicode), but if we have to parse things like \japaneseai > or similar, things become more difficult. I think it's a lot easier > moving information with blocks of text and not with single chars. :-/ It seems I've given a good argument against what I'm upholding... (at least in part) Javier