[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Guy Shtub wrote:

> else if((uchar & 0xFF00) == 0x500) {
>
>   // 1264 is the offset between Unicode and ASCII in Hebrew
Does that actually *work*?

I.e., does it, for example, cause Hebrew to display correctly in the  
GUI?  GTK+ 2.x, at least, expects to be handed UTF-8 strings, not ISO  
8859/n strings or strings in any other encoding.