"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]> 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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