Re: [NTLK] Unicode/special characters in folder names

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 22:39:01 PST


on 12/19/03 3:50 AM, James Buxton at bux1234567_at_mac.com wrote:

> Using NCU to sync by selected folders reveals that NCU seems to see the
> section symbol in Newt folder names not as a single character, but rather as
> a character sequence representing the section symbol©ös Unicode value. How
> can I get NCU to see the section symbol for its ASCII value as a single
> character? Would editing NCU©ös character-encoding (itl0, itl1, etc)
> resources help? Have I even identified the problem correctly? If not, what©ös
> the problem and what©ös the solution?

I doubt you could. The Newton uses the two-bit (or is it two-byte) Unicode
for everything. I don't see how you could work around that...

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