Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-18T10:06:10Z

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