Re: Renaming files on win32

Gili wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:53:39 +0100, [email protected]_ wrote:
>
> >Hear me: regardless of the encoding used, case folding is
> >locale-dependent. It doesn't matter a bit whether the OS uses Unicode or
> >not.
>
> How so? I fail to see how case-folding is locale-dependant under unicode.

Because different languages don't always agree about a) which letters 
are uppercase and which are lowercase, and b) how to convert from one to 
the other.

And the edge cases aren't as uncommon as you might think. For example, 
take any German word that contains the letter "ß" (no, *not* beta); 
represent it in lowercase; convert to uppercase, convert back. The 
result won't be the same as what you started with, because "ß" happens 
to be a lowercase letter whose uppercase equivalent is "SS".

-- Brane