I've moved all my responses to the Unicode debate to the i18n-sig mailing list, where it belongs. Please don't cross-post any more. If you're interested in this issue but aren't subscribed to the i18n-sig list, please subscribe at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sig/. To view the archives, go to http://www.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/. See you there! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)