Nope. UTF8 is alive and well. Its also the only encoding validly usable for
unix file naming where the / and 0 character rules are laid down by POSIX
and the single unix specification. UTF8 is also the encoding proposed in
the draft multilingual DNS extensions
> I really don't think it is wise to fight Sun, Microsoft, and Apple
> on this. We could get screwed much worse than EBCDIC users are.
> Incompatibility with the rest of the world is just not cool.
What you use for data files is another issue. As has been pointed out Unicode
isnt enough for that anyway
Alan
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