I observe and use myself non-ascii chars in filenames and usernames. People use non-ascii ( from the 8-bit , non-unicode times on ) characters in filenames.
A secretary dos not think "uh, the third character in this filename is not ASCII, maybe I shouldn't use it". They don't even know what ASCII is. They press the key, the character appears on the screen and that's it. They don't know that A-umlaut (or any other char form thair alphabet; or any other char on their keyboard ) is somehow different than Q. I also sometimes use non-ascii chars in windows usernames. Windows never complains about it, so I dont see why a random user wouldn't use it. This all is pure speculation, I didn't ask a simple person about his usage of non-ASCII chars ;-) Oh, I can't resist quoting an old UNIX wisdom : "Treating upcase and lowcase as same is the path to madness." ;-) Regards, xerces8 -----Original Message----- From: "Antoine Leca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:42:19 +0100 Subject: Re: mbstoupper or utf8toupper > [ Private mail ] > > I know. I even happen to have a first-hand opinion about both "foreign" > pathnames and casing in filenames on Windows, back in the years 1993-94. > > However, I fail to see your point. I was answering the question about > commonality of this feature. The fact a feature is available for years do > not mean it is widely used. > Or should we assume it that despite what we can observe around us? > > > Regards, > > Antoine > > > On Monday, January 03, 2005 4:09 PM > xerces8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> va escriure: > > > Windows supports unicode in file/dir names since ages ( at least 10 > > years ). Most recent linux distros also support UTF-8 filenames. > > > > Windows also allows ( I won't says "supports" ;) ) unicode in > > usernames. > > > > Regards, > > xerces8 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Antoine Leca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:03:17 +0100 > > Subject: Re: mbstoupper or utf8toupper > > > >> On Saturday, January 1st, 2005 04:10Z Michael B Allen va escriure: > >>> > >>> Are these combinations common in usernames or pathnames? > >> > >> In pathnames, I guess not common yet: from what I see around, use > >> of ASCII is still prevalent in pathnames. Things are changing, > >> though. > >> > >> In usernames, OTOH, they are quite used. For example, I do not > >> have a very broad field of comparisons for Turkish or Azeri names, > >> but I seem to remind that any of them have either i or I in their > >> names... with the associated problem in one or the other way. > >> > >> > >> Antoine > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > >> Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
