Re: UTF-8 and filenames

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On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 19:45 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm thinking of writing a draft guideline for the packaging committee to
> > mandate all filenames be in utf-8.  
> 
> This may be difficult when filename contains multibyte
> characters (such as Japanese Kanji characters), although
> I am not familiar with handling filenames with multibyte
> characters.
> 
I was under the impression that utf-8 was capable of storing Kanji,
just not as efficiently as utf-16 or another encoding.  (AIUI utf-8 uses
three bytes instead of two.)  Am I missing something important here?

-Toshio

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