Kiriwrite uses a regular expression for checking if UTF8 data that is passed to it is valid is from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. ( http://www.w3.org ) The W3C Software License (the 31st December 2002 version) is compatable with the GNU General Public License which Kiriwrite is licensed under. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UTF8 validation check regular expression: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8 Copyright ©2003 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This work is distributed under the W3C® Software License [1] in thehope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231