Subject: Re: Unicode support in kernel
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/14/1999 13:16:39
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:38:50PM +0900, Noriyuki Soda wrote:

> The translation table between existing character set and Unicode,
> which is used by Windows filesystem is different from the table
> defined by Unicode consortium. (Thus, kernel should have to 
> handle several converstion table between Unicode and other 
> character sets, since Apple's conversion table is also different
> from Microsoft's or Unicode consortium's.)

Reminds me of IBM EBCDIC vs. standard EBCDIC to ASCII conversion tables.

	-is

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