Am Samstag, 5. November 2005 14:20 schrieben Sie:
> On Nov 5, 2005, at 06:52:29, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 4. November 2005 18:45 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
> >>> On Mac OS X filenames are UTF-8, period, as far as I can tell.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> A file named "outré" in Latin 1 can't be saved on the Mac
> >>
> >>   $ uname -sr
> >>   Darwin 7.8.0
> >>   $ cd
> >>   $ touch 'outr\351'
> >>   $ ls outr*
> >>   outré
> >>   $ touch '/tmp/outr\351'
> >>   touch: /tmp/outré: Invalid argument
> >>   $
> >>
> >>                                         Juliusz
> >
> > What does this mean?
>
> It means that the Mac expects file names in UTF-8, and the name "outr
> \351" is not a valid UTF-8 string.  Not all bit patterns are legal
> UTF-8, and which ones are legal may depend on the preceding bytes.

This doesn't explain why the first "touch" works but the latter not.

> [...]

Best wishes,
Wolfgang

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