Learn about Unicode (was To Walter, about char[] initialization by FF)

[kris]

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> (Hope this long dialog will help all of us to better understand what UNICODE 
> is)

Actually, it doesn't help at all, Andrew ~ some of it is thoroughly 
misguided, and some is "cleverly" slanted purely for the benefit of the 
author. In truth, this thread would be the last place one would look to 
learn from an entirely unbiased opinion; one with only the readers 
education in mind.

There are infinitely more useful places to go for that sort of thing. 
For those who have an interest, this tiny selection may help:

http://icu.sourceforge.net/docs/papers/forms_of_unicode/
http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html