More on 'there is a file it' returning false for files w/ non-Western European chars

[Mark E. Powell]

Sarah Reichelt wrote

> If I look at the file name returned by the answer command, I get
> "/Users/sarah/Desktop/cˇu˚.txt"
> so the dual keystroke characters are effectively being split 
> into their constituents.

That is interesting.  On Windows XP when I look at the file name returned by the answer command, I get

C:/Documents and Settings/mark/Desktop/cu.txt

The keystrokes are *not* being split as on Mac, but *are* being 'flattened' to low-ASCII.  But with same end result.