> 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. [Tom Emerson] > Such as? The standard forces that work against all change -- existing tools, user habits, compatibility, etc. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)