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I notice in the 2.4 configuration utilities there are places where I

have "utf-8"
for a default code page, but there are other places that use "UTF8". It may seem an idiotic question, but does the dash ("-") create significance? Should all references be UTF8 or utf-8?

I notice under the SuSE 9.0 locale files, the dash seems significant and it won't find the right locale files if you put utf8 in some places.

Thanks,

Please Cc me on copies as I'm currently not on the list (kept getting kicked off due to transient and occasional mail-bounce problems).

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Should all references be UTF8 or utf-8?

From Markus Kuhn's excellent Unicode FAQ:

"The official name and spelling of this encoding is UTF-8, where UTF stands for UCS Transformation Format. Please do not write UTF-8 in any documentation text in other ways (such as utf8 or UTF_8), unless of course you refer to a variable name and not the encoding itself."
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html>

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