David Roundy wrote:
That's not true, there could be many filesystems, each of which uses aI agree - I can quite easily see the situation occuring where a student (say from japan) brings in a zip-disk or USB key formatted with a japanese filename encoding, that I need to read on my computer (with a UK locale).
different encoding for the filenames. In the case of removable media, this
scenario isn't even unlikely.
Also can different windows have different encodings? I might have a web browser (written in haskell?) running and have windows with several different encodings open at the same time, whist saving things on filesystems with differing encodings.
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