On Wed, 23 May 2001, Adam M. Costello wrote: > Finally, note that UTF-8 has issues with encoding efficiency (the > length of the encoded string). It's [...] bad for some other popular > scripts like Cyrillic and Arabic, [...] Would you describe why do you see UTF-8 bad for Arabic and Cyrillic? You don't want to suggest usin 8-bit character sets, do you?