From: ts Date: 2004-05-03T22:22:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range >>>>> "R" == Robert Klemme writes: R> * Characters are stored internally with 16 bits, thus allowing a lot What do you do when you need 24 bits ? R> (although not all) of the Unicode code points to be representable. Input R> and output always uses an encoding (either explicit or implicit the R> platform's default encoding). There's built in support for a number of R> well known encodings, including UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1 etc. only western, like I see :-)) Guy Decoux