RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 11:25:38 EST

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    Jill,

    > 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.

    You are correct that "SS" and "ß" are the same in case insensitive compares
    regardless of locale.

    I also think that "?stanbul" and "Istanbul" should also compare the same for
    things like keyword searches and file systems even though it is technically
    incorrect.

    Carl

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