Reuven - I think we've met briefly at ILUG in 1994-1995 (I just started using Linux at work (SLS then Slackware then RedHat) and it was a lot of fun. Also, support for Cyrillic was all around the place, so I ended up writing a Cyrillic HOWTO :-) It's been a pleasure reading your article and also to observe the slow migration from Perl to Python and so on...