Universal filename translation system (was: building a PDP11...)

And to make it worse, they introduced dozends of 8 Bit codes ... Jep. Unicode is, for most circumstances a real relif. Even when you still do 8 Bit systems (8 Bit character sets) it will help a lot - for example we can't convert our application to 16 Bit characters, since on the /370 part this would require more than a few lines of code. On the other hand we had to support different code sets in different installations (from Arabic and Cyrillic to Greek and Turkish and of course the funny French/ Spanisch accented caracters) while still manage a common code base and online data exchange. Unicode did give us a good base to define our codesets as subsets and to define interchange rules. Back to File Name Translation: does someone remember the name translations GSOS 6 on the Apple did when reading DOS or ProDOS Files ? AFAIR in DOS/ProDOS any character was allowed in the file name. Gruss H. BTW: the 9900 looks like a great Unicode machine - eventualy one should drop all this unnecersary byte operation :) -- VCF Europa 3.0 am 27./28. April 2002 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/