stewer, what were the encodings for non-ASCII characters in previous versions (allowing for the variety causing potential troubles)?  Was there a BOM in use in any of these situations?

Miss Nancy - Wrong!  The entire idea of Unicode is to allow encodings of large character sets - especially Sino-Japanese Kana/Kanji, Arabic, Hebrew, European, Korean, Cyrillic, and a great number of others - You can't specify 20,000,000 different glyph characters in 8-bit ASCII (ever).  You can specify different ones - individually - this way in a limited scope (European characters can be included in 8-bit UNsigned specifications such as ASCII-Latin 1), but that fails for ideographics like Sino-Japanese and Korean.  This is why larger encodings were necessary - and this is exactly what Unicode is for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

http://www.unicode.org

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