This includes accented characters, like, say <I>Sigur Rós</I>.<BR><BR>Now...I thought that the standard 256-character ASCII set handled accented characters just fine.

Each operating environment has its own type of record delimiters in external files. The record delimiters are incompatible between operating environments. Therefore, record delimiters appropriate to ...

Each operating environment has its own type of record delimiters in external files. The record delimiters are incompatible between operating environments. Therefore, record delimiters appropriate to ...

Whereas ASCII is limited to 128 or 256 characters however, Unicode supports 17 individual planes, each of which can map 65,536 characters, for a grand total of 1,114,112 possible characters.