DVD burning issue

[Joel Rees]

For the record --

On 2006.3.14, at 08:35 AM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:

> If i recall correctly utf-8 is an effort of making a uniform way of
> representing English and Non-English as well . I don't have the 
> slightest idea whether it is a standard yet or not .

http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html

UTF-8 was at one time just a way to squeeze up to 36-bit wide encodings 
into an 8 bit wide stream without causing as few issues as possible 
with mis-interpreting existing characters like backslash and such. The 
Unicode Consortium has claimed it now.