Messages in this thread | | | From | Robin Rosenberg <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:37:40 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17.32, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > > > Because there is a fundamental difference between file contents and > > filenames. Filenames are supposed to be text. > > I think this is actually the fundamental point where we disagree. > > You think of filenames as something the user types in, and that is > "readable text". And I don't. > > 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).
So why don't we use an int as "filename" and why are users to "type" in filenames? How foolish...
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