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+====== RIMMF3 and Unicode ======
+We are currently working on a Unicode version of RIMMF3 and it is almost ready to go.
+((All that remains to do is evaluate a few hundred compiler warnings, each of which takes about a minute or two. ETA for this work is early spring 2015.))
+When the Unicode version is ready it will replace the current one. There will be no difference in functionality--other than the fact that Unicode data will display properly.
+In the meantime, all diacritics are being escape encoded ((which is probably a good way to store this data, even in a Unicode application)). For example:
+  Zürich
+will display in RIMMF3 as:
+  Zu\u0308rich
+with
+  \u0308
+encoding the combining umlaut or diaeresis.
+To add diacritics to your data manually, each character should be entered as follows:
+  \u + the UTF-16 code of the character in hexadecimal (4 characters)
+You can find these hexadecimal codes in many places on the web; the one we use is [[http://www.fileformat.info/|http://www.fileformat.info/]]
+We would recommend not using the Windows method for direct entry of diacritics in the interim.

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