From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266501AbUBRQua (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:50:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266494AbUBRQsm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:48:42 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:2693 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266340AbUBRQsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:48:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4033974F.4090706@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:48:15 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040105 X-Accept-Language: en, sv, es, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Rosenberg CC: tridge@samba.org, Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity References: <16434.58656.381712.241116@samba.org> <200402181105.58425.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <16435.20457.610841.62521@samba.org> <200402181331.36859.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: <200402181331.36859.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > I believe (please correct me if this is wrong) that Windows never actually > supported any of the UCS-2 code that were in conflict with UTF-16. The cost > of this operation was that some of the "private" code blocks of unicode 2.0, i.e. > U+D800..U+DFFF were redefined as "surrogates" in Unicode 3.0 making the > UTF-16 encoding more or less backwards compatible with UCS-2. And it's > UTF-16LE and UCS-2LE, but I suspect you knew that :-) > Make that Unicode 1.0 and 1.1, and you're correct. -hpa