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[Lynn Fredricks]

> It is a huge mistake to think that Unicode support is for classic 
> "two-byte" applications like Japanese.

I didn't say that. UTF-8 is also Unicode. It just isnt going to cut the
mustard everywhere that Valentina is going to go.

> The majority of my Unicode users are using Hebrew, Arabic, and plain 
> old accented "European" characters! That includes American/European 
> users. Japan is at most 10% of the market that needs Unicode. We need 
> unicode for "the rest of us!!!!!!!!

Hogwash. The second largest, single language software market in the world is
Japan. You may not be addressing the needs of that market in your own
products, but that doesn't reflect the software market in general. UTF-16
doesn't take care of "the rest of us", it takes care of all of us.

Best regards,


Lynn Fredricks
President
Proactive International, LLC

http://www.proactive-intl.com