-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: [snip] Absolutely right, Jerry. :) And thanks to Aidan for this wonderful proposal. We are currently checking/discussing the pros and cons of libiconv and friends, from what I understood so far it is a very promising approach. However, our decision for or against one of the alternatives is not something you should bother with or count on, especially as we do not have: 1. enough insight to foresee consequences 2. enough man-power and competence to migrate faster than you 3. very limited interest in unicode at all (from the developers point) We would like to see us in an reactive role, that is our final decision may depend on yours, but conversely you should not necessarily consider us in your decision. If all your changes are transparent enough at lisp level, we will surely implement the necessary compatibility layer at the C level. Sebastian