Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:26:54PM +1100, tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Even within UCS-2 land the case-mapping table is sparse as only some
> characters have a upper/lower mapping. In fact, there are just 636
> characters out of 64k that have an upper/lower case mapping that isn't
> the identity. That is across *all* languages that windows uses for
> UCS-2.

This is because scripts differentiating between upper and lower case are
rare exceptions in the world.

Unfortunately, commonly used exceptions, and still locale dependent.

Having a samba-helper kernel module that would contain this table (I am
confident that it's only a single table in existing versions of windows,
but maybe they improve that in future versions) could solve this problem.

I still wonder wether it ever can be made efficient, though.

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