Unicode/ascii encoding nightmare

[John Machin]

Thomas W wrote:
> Ok, I've cleaned up my code abit and it seems as if I've
> encoded/decoded myself into a corner ;-). My understanding of unicode
> has room for improvement, that's for sure. I got some pointers and
> initial code-cleanup seem to have removed some of the strange results I
> got, which several of you also pointed out.
>
> Anyway, thanks for all your replies. I think I can get this thing up
> and running with a bit more code tinkering. And I'll read up on some
> unicode-docs as well. :-) Thanks again.

I strongly suggest that you read the docs *FIRST*, and don't "tinker"
at all.

HTH,
John