RE: Unicode and end users

From: Chris Pratley (chrispr@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 00:23:29 EST

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Perhaps that was true of NT4. On WindowsXP NTFS uses UTF-16 - it handles
Extension B filenames just fine.

Chris

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org]
Sent: February 19, 2002 5:04 AM
To: David Hopwood
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Unicode and end users

David Hopwood scripsit:

> (I've just checked whether NTFS allows ill-formed UTF-16 filenames; it
does,
> at least on NT4.0, but you could reasonably treat that as an error.)

NTFS filenames are UCS-2, not UTF-16, so "ill-formed" has no meaning.

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