Glynn Clements wrote:
To get a better idea, you would need to consult users whose language doesn't use the roman alphabet, e.g. CJK or cyrillic. Unfortunately, you don't usually find too many of them on lists such as this.
In Russia, we still have multiple one byte encodings for Cyrillic: KOI-8 (Unix), CP1251 (Windows), and getting more and more obsolete CP866 (MSDOS, OS/2). Regarding filenames, I am sure Windows stores them in Unicode regarding of locale (I tried various chcp numbers in a console window, printing directory containing filenames in Russian and in German altogether, and it showed "non-characters" as question marks when locale-based codepage was set, and showed everything with chcp 65001 which is Unicode). AFAIK Unix users do not create files named in Russian very often, and Windows users do this frequently. Dimitry Golubovsky Middletown, CT