xerces8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> va escriure: > > Windows also allows ( I won't says "supports" ;) ) unicode in > > usernames.
Since -- thanks to the wonders of heterogeneous enterprise-wide LDAP user directories -- Linux machines out there in the wild are now also routinely exposed to non-ASCII login names, I know that at least SuSE had to put some effort into supporting non-ASCII UTF-8 login names in their latest release. Not that any old Unix hacker thinks that this is a good idea; it is just something that -- if not properly supported-- would cause great pain for customer [EMAIL PROTECTED] if it does not work as it used to on the Windows network, before the big migration to the Linux desktop was ordered. Back to the original topic: My advise is to avoid case mapping wherever possible. Getting it right is expensive, and doing it is usually unnecessary. I think, by now Microsoft has learned the hard way, what a grave mistake it was to have a file system with case-insensitive names. (Again, it almost certainly was not really their free choice in NTFS, as they were expected not to break MS-DOS applications.) Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
