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By author: Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> For ext2 and almos all "traditional" unix fs they don't care about
> encodings, it is just bytes. so if you type in utf-8 they are stored
> in utf-8.
>
This behaviour is mandated by POSIX. Any nonzero sequence of bytes
except '/' and '\0' are legal in filenames, in any order. The only
ones which have special meaning are "." and "..".
-hpa
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