Language / Unicode / encoding interaction details is one of those things where I pretty much always learn something whenever it comes up. Including from your co

Language / Unicode / encoding interaction details is one of those things where I pretty much always learn something whenever it comes up. Including from your comment (thanks!). It's fascinating how incredibly widely varied every possible pattern / "rule" is. There's just no end to the edge cases. Don't split or concatenate strings! Period! Ask your translators to do it, they actually have some idea of what is linguistically and socially acceptable!