I'd like to propose that we invite Neil Hodgson to join the python-dev family. Neil is the author of the Scintilla editor control, now used by wxPython and Pythonwin... Smart guy, and very experienced with Python (scintilla was originally written because he had trouble converting Pythonwin to be a color'd editor :-) But most relevant at the moment is his Unicode experience. He worked for along time with Fujitsu, working with Japanese and all the encoding issues there. I have heard him echo the exact sentiments of Andy. He is also in the process of polishing the recent Unicode support in Scintilla. As this Unicode debate seems to be going nowhere fast, and appears to simply need more people with _experience_, I think he would be valuable. Further, he is a pretty quiet guy - you wont find him offering his opinion on every post that moves through here :-) Thoughts? Mark.