Re: LFN Utilities for Win32

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Caballero  on Fri, 20
Feb 2004 22:17:10 -0700 (MST)


> I have a dozen or so files with accented characters...
> North America includes Canada... Most
> people, I'm sure, can do without accented characters in their filenames...
> Native XyWrite hasn't ever given me any problems with accented letters in
> the >127<256 range

I attach a small 9Kb ZIPfile of some LFNs with high-order characters. XyWrite
can see them under W9x, and under any OS on an NTFS volume; but otherwise
[Win2K, WinXP under FAT/FAT32], no can do. You try it. High order chars were
ILLEGAL in old versions of DOS, including those under which Xy4 was developed.
The elastic tolerance of some OpSyses [e.g. French-Canadian or European Win32]
for high chars isn't the point. NA may include Québec (if they really want to
be associated with it), but I'm sure that savvy Québecois do not use accented
characters in their filenames. As for other North Americans -- according to
your testimony, ignorance is bliss. (We used to have French-Canadian users --
Michel Slivitsky, for one -- long gone)
Attachment:
HIGHNAME.ZIP

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