On Jan 18, 2012, at 23:54 , Thomas Zumbrunn wrote:

>   plain("Zürich")  ## works
>   plain("Z\u00BCrich")  ## fails
>   escaped("Zürich")  ## fails
>   escaped("Z\u00BCrich")  ## works

Using the correct UTF-8 code helps quite a bit:

U+00BC  ¼       c2 bc   VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
U+00FC  ü       c3 bc   LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS

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Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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