http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/10/29/5756924.aspxMicrosoft has had Unicode as a part of its operating system offerings since the easrliest days of its 32-bit platforms. And a lot that support predates asnything that Unicode later chose to provide, thus we don't use the Unicode Collation Algorithmen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/10/29/5756924.aspx#5773696Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:58:08 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5773696Michael S. Kaplan<P>Yes, that's the cp1258 stuff I link to in the post. :-)</P><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5773696" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/10/29/5756924.aspx#5772775Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:24:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5772775Andrew<p>I'd assume that Microsoft's &quot;Form 'C'- ness&quot; doesn't apply to its implementation of Vietnamese?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5772775" width="1" height="1">