Stefan Sperling said: > Bad idea. See my other post. Apple did this and broke existing applications.
OpenBSD changed time_t and broke existing applications, but hardly anyone thinks it was a bad idea. Fancy filenames are long known to be problematic, so filename policy enforcement is a breakage of the same sort. Apple have taken the lead here, and they may eventually do the same thing to industry as OpenBSD did by changing time_t. FWIW now it is rather safe to normalize filenames now, as related problems are already being solved due to breakages on OSX. Although I might be missing something, an additional function which takes desired filename and outputs normalized filename could probably solve this problem on applications' side. Such function, be it implemented in libc, could even allow system administrators enforce local file naming preference as system-wide policy. P.S.: I don't actually propose to implement filename normalization in OpenBSD right now. I've merely thrown this idea to generate potentially fruitful discussion. Don't mistake it for feature request or demand of some kind. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
