--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Constable" <petercon@...> wrote:

> It's none of the above. It has to do with default collation not
> supporting Canadian Syllabics. It's not something that can readily be
> updated on existing systems, and it wouldn't do very well to enable
> ability to work with Cdn Syllabics text data when e.g. all filenames
> consisting of Cdn Syllabics characters would compare as identical.

That's a long way from,

'A giant project is underway to make computing much more friendly for
Inuit - not by fixing any bugs and technical glitches, but by
translating the entire Windows operating system into Inuktitut.'

I've been warned not to believe what I read in the press, but...

But good grief, string matching is very defective! I did some
experiments, which suggested that it was matching strings on their
first character only. Now, I'd heard that the Windows collating
comparison wasn't transitive, but this is really depressing.

However, an ability to work with such text is there already, even if
it is malfunctioning. I can already create files with filenames in
Canadian syllabics! (Their names come up a serieis of missing glyphs,
mind you!)

Richard.