From: Arcane Jill (arcanejill@ramonsky.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 09:57:18 EST
I believe that "A" is not canonically equivalent to "a", but you still
can't have filenames "A" and "a" coexisting in the same Windows folder.
This is a consequence of having a case-insensitive filesystem. As to
whether or not the case-equivalence of "ss" and "ß" should be expressed
(a) only in Germany, or (b) everywhere, I confess that's not really
something I'd considered. I know that Unicode does have some
locale-sensitive case mappings (Turkish uppercase I to dotless lowercase
I for example), I was under the impression that "ss" to "ß" was not one
of them.
I don't think it would make a great deal of sense to enforce it only in
Germany, however. If you did that, then a directory tree FTPed from
England to Germany might be unsaveable at the German end, so I'd argue
that the default case mappings should be the ones used everywhere.
Jill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark E. Shoulson [mailto:mark@kli.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:58 PM
> To: Arcane Jill
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?
>
>
> Shouldn't it permit "assa" and "aßa" to co-exist? It isn't like ß is
> canonically equivalent to ss
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