Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:00:08 +0100 |
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Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:
> Linus Torvalds wrote: >> I think the filenames are just ways for a _program_ to look up stuff, and >> the human readability is a secondary thing (it's "polite", but not a >> fundamental part of their meaning). > > Politeness is nice. I'm sure there's a pragmatic reason most > filenames are meaningful text in some human language :) > > I'd like a way to type something like "touch zöe.txt" on an ordinary > latin1 terminal and get a UTF-8 filename in my filesystem. Thanks :)
Then hack either bash (or whatever shell you use) or touch to do just that.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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