Well, it appears I hit the wrong key yesterday ;-) Should be the side effects of Dec 31st. :O)
xerces8 va escriure: > > This all is pure speculation, I didn't ask a simple person about his > usage of non-ASCII chars ;-) Well, on my side it was not pure speculation, but datas based on observed usage, coming from the past need to advise the "secretaries" that they should refrain to use à or à (or simply space) when typing a filename to avoid future problems. Of course it was years ago, and this kind of problems are slightly disappearing (but I do not believe that a caseless filesystem will consider that à and SS are the same "character".) It remains that nowadays, this generation of "secretaries" have the habit to not use à in filenames, so they are writing ESPANA (I do not know why they are uppercasing everything as well; at least Ken has a lowercase-able TTY back in 1972, much before I came with my "advices" ;-) .) Of course the younger "secretaries" do not have this bias and normally use any character they can encounter on the keyboard, including â. It just happens that computers seem to evolve more quickly than the normal regeneration of humans, so the "youngers" are still in minority ;-). Antoine -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
