Re: filename encoding (was: ISO-2022)

[David Starner]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:14:09PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Thus, either of them should be taken:
> >  1. libc/kernel accepts only UTF-8 filenames.
> >  2. libc/kernel knows the locale.
> 
> None of this.  Neither the kernel nor libc will ever do anything about
> the encoding of filenames etc.  There are these stupid Winblows
> exceptions of course but not for real filesystems.

Yes, because it's better to be in the state that Linux is in (inconsistent
encoding of filenames) than to actually now what the name of a file is
in any program, always, like Winblows.

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