> On 16 May 2017, at 20:01, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > On Windows NTFS (and LFN extension of FAT32 and exFAT) at least, random > sequences of 16-bit code units are not permitted. There's visibly a > validation step that returns an error if you attempt to create files with > invalid sequences (including other restrictions such as forbidding U+0000 and > some other problematic controls).
For it to work the way I suggested, there would be low level routines that handles the names raw, and then on top of that, interface routines doing what you describe. On the Austin Group List, they mentioned a filesystem doing it directly in UTF-16, and it could have been the one you describe.
