Re: non-ASCII characters in directory names
Re: non-ASCII characters in directory names
- Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in directory names
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:01:23 +0100
On 10 Jan 2008, at 23:12, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 21:18 +0100 1/10/08, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Also it's fine that Mac OS X enforces UTF-8 in filenames.
It's probably important to note that most, if not all, UNIX-
compatible file systems don't really have to care what the encoding
of the file name is. There are very few 8 bit chars that are
illegal at that point and it may well be only the null character
which terminates a C string.
Well, that and '/'. Although on HFS(+) this is a bit weird, since '/'
can perfectly appear in an HFS+ name but ':' can't, which in turn can
perfectly appear in file names on UNIX fs'es (so there's some
translation going on here and there, with different file names
appearing in Finder and Terminal etc).
Jonas
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