http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnste/archive/2009/06/01/writing-fields-of-data-to-an-encoded-file.aspxThe moral here is "Use Unicode," so you can skip the details below if you want :) A common problem when storing string data in various fields is how to encode it. Obviously you can store the Unicode as Unicode, which is a good choice for an XML fileen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnste/archive/2009/06/01/writing-fields-of-data-to-an-encoded-file.aspx#9823243Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:30:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9823243Shawn Steele - MSFT<p>Yup, that's a common problem when talking about code points/units/characters/glyphs/whatever :)</p> <p>So reader beware: &nbsp;I'm not always consistent in my grammer ;-)</p> <p>Thanks John, no clue you read my blog. &nbsp;Guess that spam on my email address caught someone.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9823243" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnste/archive/2009/06/01/writing-fields-of-data-to-an-encoded-file.aspx#9688447Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:53:36 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9688447John Cowan<p>I think you are using the term &quot;code points&quot; for Unicode code &lt;i&gt;units&lt;/i&gt;. &nbsp;A single code point represents a single Unicode character; however, a code point may require either one or two 16-bit code units in UTF-16, and either one, two, three, or four 8-bit code units in UTF-8.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9688447" width="1" height="1">