Jill, > I know that Unicode does have some > locale-sensitive case mappings (Turkish > uppercase I to dotless lowercase > I for example), I was under the impression > that "ss" to "ß" was not one of them.
You are correct that "SS" and "ß" are the same in case insensitive compares regardless of locale. I also think that "?stanbul" and "Istanbul" should also compare the same for things like keyword searches and file systems even though it is technically incorrect. Carl
