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>We don't have enough non-English speakers to test our character set conversion features.  Anyone willing to participate in that way would be most welcome.</P
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>Canonical examples of using the each library would be very helpful to newcomers.</P
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>The FAQ and in particular the news don't get updated often enough.  If that's your thing, drop a line to your friendly project maintainer, <A
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