>>You never really set rant off, Dragan, and that's why we love you ;-)
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>But imagine "curmudgeon" in 72px large, solid gold cuneiform... that would be something to hang above one's monitor, eh?
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>>.NET fully supports unicode AFAIK....
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>I was only teasing the initiated... because it's a bit weird - we know VFP doesn't support more than one codepage at a time, and to get it to do Unicode, one has to jump through a lot of sets of not quite concentric nor coaxial hoops, but Michel managed to do it.
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>Now in dot net, where this is supposedly not just easier, but an out-of-the-box feature, it doesn't do other than Western. Which does irritate me a lot - see my other posts, and you'll see one of my permanent rants is about the West (anglophone world specially) not even trying to learn about the rest of the world, but reshape it in its own image. Which is why anything but 26 characters is an afterthought, always. The next guys who get taken about are the West European languages, so Frankoys gets to sign as François, and the Scandinavians get their slashed o and the Germans get their umlauts... while the Polish with their slashed el, Hungarians with their long umlauts and long i, Romanians with their s-cedilla and t-cedilla and a bunch of diacriticals on vowels, and the South and West Slavics with their diacriticals on s, z, c, d and maybe a few others, they just have to wait to be noticed. Then several years later there's a cyrillic version, and about that time there are Kanji, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese, Arabic (did I forget any other complicated Asian script?).
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>Well, the silent ones aren't fed. I don't mind me having to sign my last name with -ich instead of a proper -i, c-acute, but there are people I respect and I wouldn't want to have their names mutilated when I mention them.
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>FYI, you would be Majk Bin in Serbian.

I like it! Saves time both typing and signing.

Best,

Majk Bin