Graham> Neil, what would we have to do to set Quixote right? We have a
    Graham> lot of hands (though time is always scarce ;-) but I doubt most
    Graham> of us have a clear appreciation of the problem.

Don't believe when Neil says he's "not familiar with Unicode".  He's
apparently familiar enough to know where most of the stumbling blocks
are. ;-)  His previous message hit most/all the places I encountered.

In theory, if all body text was accumulated as unicode objects instead of
strings and there was a way to convey the desired encoding down to the level
where stuff gets encoded into strings for tranmission, there'd be little
else to do.  I don't know what sort of breakage lower-level APIs in Quixote
can tolerate, but I personal have nothing yet to be backward-compatible
with, so I can probably charge ahead like a bull in a china shop and get
something which works for me but isn't terribly pretty.

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