UTF-8 and filenames

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 14 mars 2007 à 10:11 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 19:45 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> > Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm thinking of writing a draft guideline for the packaging committee to
> > > mandate all filenames be in utf-8.  
> > 
> > This may be difficult when filename contains multibyte
> > characters (such as Japanese Kanji characters), although
> > I am not familiar with handling filenames with multibyte
> > characters.
> > 
> I was under the impression that utf-8 was capable of storing Kanji,
> just not as efficiently as utf-16 or another encoding.  (AIUI utf-8 uses
> three bytes instead of two.)  Am I missing something important here?

IIRC JIS was slow to get on the unicode bandwagon, that's all

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot