> I don't know why someone doesn't develop a string class that works

with

> Unicode characters and can handle the normal string operations (copy,
> compare, length, substring, convert to/from character sets) and then

use

> that in the code.

Cause then programmers would actually have to agree on the class
functionality.

I would have thought that after so many years of following this list you
would know that agreement amongst this group is almost never possible.
;-)))

> Oh and as a final issue, consideration could be given to use one of

the

> tens or even hundreds of string classes that support Unicode that are
> already out there.

Then programmers would have to admit that the code that someone else
wrote could be as good or better than what they could write themselves.

;-))))


Sean