Re: Unicode and end users

From: David Hopwood (david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 07:12:03 EST


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John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

OK, then it allows ill-formed UCS-2 filenames (all surrogate codes are
ill-formed UCS-2, and in particular all ill-formed UTF-16 is also ill-formed
UCS-2).

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