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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> ...but isn't this moot at present because there are no
> widely-accepted encodings that include characters that
> aren't supported by UCS-4? Citrus doesn't seem to support
> any such encodings in any case.

"Just" using UCS-4 not necessarily buys you the desired affect.
Keep in mind that UCS-4 is still a variable width encoding, as soon as
you factor combining characters and some other interesting parts in.

Joerg