UTF-8 and filenames

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Wed Mar 14 10:37:25 UTC 2007


Hi.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:26:27 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> 1) UTF8 is the native encoding of our filesystems

Just a little technical nitpicking: most filesystems do not have a notion
of charsets or encodings, they treat a filename as a string of bytes, the
interpretation of which is entirely left to userspace.




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