Dipti Srivastava asked: > If I set my LC_TYPE to en_US.UTF8 do I need to convert the non-Ascii > characters like > '\' in the filename for functions like open, etc.
'\' *is* an ASCII character. 0x5C in ASCII to be exact. It is also 0x5C in UTF-8, so no (other) conversion is required. UTF-8 is designed so that all ASCII characters (0x00..0x7F) have exactly the same values in UTF-8. This is precisely so that existing protocols and library functions will continue to work correctly with it for all ASCII character values. --Ken
