:: >Uncompressed UTF 8 - is 8 bytes.

Sorry I should have written 8 bits. Individual characters can of course be
bigger and in most non English/Latin sets they are.

:: bytes. If you're interested, do try to seek out Peter
:: Jacobi's postings on the subject of UNICODE_FSS and how it
:: could be made to behave more politely according to various UTF rules.

I tried, but YG's search function really sucks - it shows you a few results
at a time and you have to "research" each block. It only searches a block at
a time (And I don't mean just paging resutls, it only searches one block at
a time. No results found in 10000-10250, try next block!)

:: Upper-casing and ordering are problems, because the Fb
:: implementation of U_FSS has no collations alternative to

Hmm. That should not affect me, but good to know. Cant FB rely on the OS at
all here? I just need to store, look up, etc.