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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: February 19, 2002 5:04 AM
To: David Hopwood
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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