> > > > There are "full width alphabets" in Japanese. Thoes include not only
> > > > ASCII letters but also some European characters.
> > >
> > > Are these ASCII and European characters uppercased in some
> > > Japanese-specific way ?
> >
> > Probably not, but I'm not sure since my Linux box does not have *.utf8
> > locales.
>
> Could you give me the UTF-8 bytecode for one japanese upper case char and
> for the same char the lower case?
> I will check in de_DE locale if this translations works.
Ok, here is the data you requested. The first three bytes (0xefbca1)
represents full-width capital "A", the rest three bytes (0xefbd81)
represents full-width lower case "a".