On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > True, and this applies mostly to Western languages, with maybe Viet as > an exception. > > The 'real' fun starts when you have a file in German with the double s > character or an umlatted a, o or u and a file with the same but not > containing the special characters or their Anglicized equivalents. > Is that really a problem? Admittedly my encoding skills are not great, but AFAIK in UTF-8 those are just different set of bytes, so they shouldn't be confused. A lowercase 'umlaut a' would be something like: 11000011 10100100 An uppercase 'umlaut A' would be something like: 11000011 10000100 Which is completely different to lowercase 'a' 01100001 -c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines