"Garrett D'Amore" <garr...@damore.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 00:43 -0700, shilpa wrote:
> > How would glob feature work, in case multibyte filenames are allowed?
> > Because a multibyte character is a combination of more than one character,
> > which includes glob characters like "{", "["....
>
> I'm not sure how globbing would work, frankly. However, I believe UTF8
> and other common multibyte character schemes always have bytes with the
> high-order bit set, so that there is never a multibyte character that
> has component bytes that collide with ASCII. So this problem should be
> a non-issue.
The assumption that multi-byte characters use octets with the high order bit
set is only correct for so called stateless locales.
Locales that use shift codes behave different.
Jörg
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