Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-18T16:50:30Z

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