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[jda]

>For storage, Jon. But not for algorithms.
>
>I can ensure you that REALBasic send UTF8 strings to OS X.
>OS X convert them to UTF16, do required operation and return result.
>

Yes, I agree. For storage. I have written my own Pascal routines to 
handle unicode in OS X, and everything must be converted to/from 
UTF-16. But the overhead is small, and the savings in storage space 
for me is enormous, so I prefer UTF-8.

Jon