Any canoical examples to go with those two? As I understand it now, I can pretty much get away with utf8 and some locale code, as long as I stick to (possibly some subset of distributions of) Linux. Which really is fine for my use case, but it's not really a very nice stance to take (it's all fun and games until you need to work in an environment where you for some reason or other can't change the OS, and need that clever utility that wasn't quite as standard/cross-platform as it maybe should've been...).