Why not use UTF-8? This would provide a high level of compatibility with the
current system, in that ASCII range data remain as single-byte ASCII, while the
Æ, Ø and Å become 2 bytes. This encoding permits the use of all Unicode
characters, so things like the Turkish dotless-i and even CJK ideographs can
just as easily be encoded.
For example, your name would be:
Currently: Trond Trosterud
UTF-8: Trond Trosterud
while other names would change to look like (if viewed directly on Windows as
though they were encoded as CP 1252):
Currently: Åge Sørensen
UTF-8: �ge Sørensen
Brendan
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