note ikegami <blockquote><p><i>&#91;iso-8859-1] is a unicode encoding, in that after you've decoded the character number, the number maps 1-on-1 to the Unicode space.</i></blockquote> <p>By that logic, UTF-8 is not a "unicode encoding". For example, C2 in Unicode does not map to C2 in UTF-8. Your choice of name for this trait is very poor. 661510 661537