> The reference scanner, currently written in C++, traverses whole
> directory trees.  Being C++ it treats file names as byte arrays so it
> doesn’t matter what the file name encoding is.

But what matters then is that the filename encodings on the filesystem and in 
the
binary match, right?

> Note also that the reference scanner only looks for “xyz…-foo”; what
> comes before and after doesn’t matter.  So for example if you have
> “/gnu/store/xyz…-foo/à”, what’s important is the “xyz…-foo” bit.

OK, makes sense, then my main worry is just moot :)

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Pierre Neidhardt
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