On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:50:12PM +0100, Nick Lamb <njl98r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For Linux at least the filesystems speak UTF8.
While this is the proposed standard, there exist about zero systems in
practise that follow it, and the kernel does neither check nor enforce it.
> around that without needing to consult us) how about *BSD, Solaris etc?
"unix", in general, only supports characters from the portable filename
character set, so "in theory" there is no problem at all, as characters
>127 do not exist in that set.
So there is no way around supporting native character sets.
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