Yep. It's a huge ugly mess. For an inkling of what's wrong, read these: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/art

Yep. It's a huge ugly mess. For an inkling of what's wrong, read these: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2643 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2643 (search for "unicode") http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/ http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/