UTF-8 and filenames

[Callum Lerwick]

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... :(
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