> > Also, imagine the extra load on your system if when you do: > > > > cat bigfiles | b | c | d | less > > > > and the text is being normalized back and forth at every step > > of the pipeline. > > That has nothing to do with the filesystem; pipes are 8-bit clean for > completely different reasons (you can pipe binary data through them).
I was imagining each application doing the re-normaliziation not the pipes themselves. (gasp, i never even imagined that) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
