Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > >> Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: >>> That operation fails if you try to translate the snippets to strings >>> before concatenation. Such concatenation operations are commonplace >>> when dealing with filenames (eg, split(1)). >> >> split(1) does not "deal with filenames" when splitting, but the >> individual files may be split inside of UTF-8 sequences. See above. > > You probably cannot produce valid UTF-8 out of invalid UTF-8 snippets > with split(1). However split(1) does form filenames out of its arguments > by concatenation: > > split --additional-suffix=suffix file prefix > > produces these kinds of filenames: > > <prefix><ordinal><suffix>
I don't really get your point here. Why would you start with invalid UTF-8 sequences in the filenames? -- David Kastrup
