Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 11:54:12 EST


Robin Rosenberg wrote:

I believe (please correct me if this is wrong) that Windows never actually
supported any of the UCS-2 code that were in conflict with UTF-16. The cost
of this operation was that some of the "private" code blocks of unicode 2.0, i.e. U+D800..U+DFFF were redefined as "surrogates" in Unicode 3.0 making the UTF-16 encoding more or less backwards compatible with UCS-2. And it's UTF-16LE and UCS-2LE, but I suspect you knew that :-)


Make that Unicode 1.0 and 1.1, and you're correct.

-hpa
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