Tom Emerson wrote: > Guido van Rossum writes: > > OK. I really meant recoding in UTF-8 -- I maintain that there are > > lots of forces that prevent recoding most ISO-2022-JP documents in > > UTF-8. >=20 > Such as? ISO-2022-JP includes language/locale information, UTF-8 doesn't. if you just recode the character codes, you'll lose important information. </F>