On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:07:20PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > What happens if the filesystem has filenames that invalid UTF8 sequences > or multiple filenames that decode from UTF8 to the same 'wchar' value. > Never mind ones that are just case-differences for the same filename. > > UTF8 is just so broken it should never have been allowed to become > a standard. Internationalization is an overconstrained problem which is impacted and influenced by human politics, incuding from the Cold War and who attended which internal standards bodies meetings. So much so that an I18N expert (very knowledgable about the problems in this domain) has been known to have said (in a bar, late at night, and after much alcohol) that it would be simpler to teach the entire human race English. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, and if we are going to deal with the market of "everyone which doesn't speak English", we're going to have to live with Unicode, warts at and all. Seriously speaking, UTF-8 is the worst encoding, except for all of the others. :-) - Ted
