The IBM announcement of freeing Unicode-handling libraries may be really significant. IBM ended up with the Taligent code, which was the best work on i18n up to that time and probably since. http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cn28kqcSbotmWmdCYmJeX &FQ=open-source&SymHdl=1&Nav=na-search-&StoryTitle=open-source Nathan Myers ncm@cantrip.org