UTF-8 and filenames

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:44 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Okay, so people missed my point.
> 
> The point is, if its a tool that doesn't *have* to care about encodings,
> then it should not care about encodings. If its not something that
> performs stuff like alphabetical sorting or case insensitive comparison,
> then it should just accept and pass on the filename as a bag of bits,
> not caring what they mean.
> 
> For example, for a long time rsync wouldn't allow you to specify files
> and directories with spaces in the name on the command line, no matter
> how hard you tried to escape or quote it. It would interpret the space
> as a filename seperator. This finally got fixed at some point though. :)
> 
> This also applies to people not properly quoting variables in shell
> scripts... :(

This is much more clearer and I agree 101%

Simo.