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On 9/6/13 5:11 AM, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
> The Flexible String Representation has conceptually to
> face the same problem. It splits "unicode" in chunks and
> it has to solve two problems at the same time, the coding
> and the handling of multiple "char sets". The problem?
> It fails.

Just once, please say *how* it fails.  :(

--Ned.