(keep it on the list) Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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I'm not sure having a mixed-encoding lump of text makes sense in any context...

Of course it makes sense. Think of a multi-lingual school, where parents speak more than one language, and different groups of kids are taught in different languages. (My daughter's school is such a school). Content on any single page can be in more than one language.

Hmmm, you need to look at one all-encompassing character encoding then. I'm not sure HTTP supports more than one character encoding per page, so you could be in for a hard time ;-)

So, site users get one 'extended character set' language and ASCII. Period. It is a bit restrictive.

You have rather exceptional needs that I'm not sure "the internet" caters for ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk