Hello Phil, and Brent,

Thank you very much, Phil, for your great posting. And thank you, Brent,
for these new conversion verbs:

string.utf8ToAnsi
string.ansiToUtf8
string.ansiToUtf16
string.utf16ToAnsi

They are certainly a very promising step toward the "right direction"!

I would like to ask: What does "ANSI" mean in this context? Is this
equivalent of "ISO-8859-1"?

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Long long ago (November 1998), I uploaded a set of Frontier suite (for the
Mac) and MacPerl script that convert between legacy encoding text
(MacRoman, Shift-JIS and Big5) and UTF-8. I think the Frontier suite was
for Frontier 4.2.3...:

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~n-iyanag/Frontier/unicodeConversion.html

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As Phil pointed out, XML, Perl, Python or Java... are all Unicode savvy
now. Why not Frontier...! On the MacOS X, I think all Cocoa applications
support Unicode natively. This is probably the direction to go...??

Best regards,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan

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