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9 years ago Windows does not store file names in the format that Cryptophane uses, and the
display can be rather strange. Cryptophane does, however, retain the proper
characters when encrypting and signing files. The following is courtesy of
Michael S. Kaplan, Microsoft Unicode wiz .... hth
Can you tell me how window XP encodes its filename/directory name?
Is it already UTF-8?
(I assume we are talking about NTFS here)
It is definitely not in UTF-8.
Furthermore, it is not in UCS-2, since you can have a filename with a
supplementary character in it.
And it isn't in UTF-16, since it allows any sequence of unsigned short values
which are not limited to valid Unicode characters and
So in one sense you could call it UTF-16 Plus since it basically adds a whole
bunch of characters, though it is obviously less cool than actually using
UTF-16 so perhaps it would be better to think of it as more of a UTF-16 Minus?
Or even better we just keep in mind that it isn't really a true Unicode
encoding, just one that supports a lot of Unicode's characteristics and
features and properties, while not really having a larger understanding of
it....Original comment by verslo.b...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2011 at 3:10
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
tanarris...@yahoo.comon 20 Nov 2009 at 10:51