Glenn Linderman wrote:
My understanding of the Posix file names is that any byte values are
valid except "/" and null. Is this a correct understanding?
The UTF-8b proposal seems to translate from a non-UTF-8 byte stream to a
Unicode character stream. Call the original byte stream FOO. The
transformation then produces FOOTR, a set of Unicode code points. Now
FOOTR has a representation in UTF-8, which is a byte stream, call that
byte stream FOOTRUTF8. How, by looking at FOOTR, do you know whether it
represents the file name FOO or FOOTRUTF8 ? And remember that the user
might provide a Unicode character stream identical to FOOTR: should it
be translated to FOO or FOOTRUTF8 when creating a new file according to
the user-supplied name?
If FOOTR is using PUA chars, then I believe that users should not be
providing such a stream as it would have no defined meaning coming from
them.
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