On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
However, it *does* agree with the reality of Windows file systems. The fundamental problem here is that there is a strong OS disparity - for Windows, the OS uses Unicode, for POSIX, the OS uses bytes.
It's unfortunately the case that this isn't *precisely* true. Windows uses arbitrary 16-bit sequences, just as unix uses arbitrary 8-bit sequences. Neither one is required by the operating system to be a proper unicode encoding. The main difference is that there is already a widely accepted way to decode a improperly-encoded 16-bit-sequence with the utf-16 codec: simply leave the lone surrogate pairs in place.
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