From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264147AbUBRKGK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:06:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264283AbUBRKGK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:06:10 -0500 Received: from [212.28.208.94] ([212.28.208.94]:27663 "HELO dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264147AbUBRKGI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:06:08 -0500 From: Robin Rosenberg To: tridge@samba.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:05:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: hpa@zytor.com, Kernel Mailing List References: <16434.58656.381712.241116@samba.org> In-Reply-To: <16434.58656.381712.241116@samba.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402181105.58425.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 18 February 2004 05.08, tridge@samba.org wrote: > Hpa, > > > So you're hosed if anyone uses characters outside the UCS-2 character > > set... > > I've heard they are re-defining all those 16 bit numbers to be UCS-16 > instead of UCS-2 for exactly that reason. This is rather similar to > the move in the Unix community to start using UTF-8. I've read it also: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrg_unicode.mspx "The fundamental representation of text in Windows NT-based operating systems is UTF-16" -- robin