I believe that "A" is not canonically equivalent to "a", but you still can't have filenames "A" and "a" coexisting in the same Windows folder. This is a consequence of having a case-insensitive filesystem. As to whether or not the case-equivalence of "ss" and "�" should be expressed (a) only in Germany, or (b) everywhere, I confess that's not really something I'd considered. I know that Unicode does have some locale-sensitive case mappings (Turkish uppercase I to dotless lowercase I for example), I was under the impression that "ss" to "�" was not one of them.
I don't think it would make a great deal of sense to enforce it only in Germany, however. If you did that, then a directory tree FTPed from England to Germany might be unsaveable at the German end, so I'd argue that the default case mappings should be the ones used everywhere.
Jill
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark E. Shoulson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:58 PM > To: Arcane Jill > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ? > > > Shouldn't it permit "assa" and "a�a" to co-exist? It isn't like � is > canonically equivalent to ss
