if 0 {[Richard Suchenwirth] 2003-06-18 - SYNOPSIS:
 package require i18n ?1.0?

 i18n::codepage encoding
 i18n::data     ?name ?value??
 i18n::from     repname string
 i18n::language ?code?
 i18n::render   string
 i18n::tell     string
 i18n::to       keyword string
 
DESCRIPTION

i18n is short for internationalization, "make software work with many
languages". This package contains support routines and utilities
for i18n work, mainly for conversion between 16-bit Unicode strings 
(where each character can be between 0000 and FFFF) and 
7-bit ASCII strings (where the range is limited to