Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Ahem...

I think a case could be made that one could blame Unicode for *not* representing these different alphabets. After all, the same code point is used for "different" characters in the alphabets - if one agrees to your statement that these are really different alphabets.

But, in real life, too much water has flown under this bridge to discuss it outside an evening in a wine bar with some friends who are encoding freaks. I have to admit I would be part of such a discussion... ;-)

Cheers, Joachim