Re: problems with german umlauts

[Bertalan Fodor]

> BTW I don't understand all this unicode business.  Most european characters 
> can be accessed within ascii.  Why should we have to go to unicode to get them?
>   
Because most accented European characters can not be accessed within 
ascii :-)
It greatly simplifies things, you know that everything is UTF-8, so 
don't have to care with encodings.

Bert