[Corpora-List] AntConc 3.2.2 released for Windows and Mac OS X

maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Wed Apr 13 17:50:42 UTC 2011


Laurence Anthony <anthony0122 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, all (pre Win 7?) windows systems had their
> own legacy encodings, which varied from country to country. 
> So, even if you have a file saved as UTF8, the file *name* 
> is saved in the legacy encoding. 

Are you sure?  I thought NTFS filenames were Unicode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs (see "Allowed characters in filenames")
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317748%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
--and NTFS superseded the older FAT filesystem as of Windows NT.

   Mike Maxwell

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