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SubjectRe: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:56:30PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>
> Again users want characters, not bytes. Here up in the north we are among the
> lucky ones that can still read a partially unlegible file name, because enough many
> characters are usually just ascii. If a name was encoded in SJIS and you see them
> interpreted as UTF-8 you'll a a string of pure garbage and you need to ask a bit
> twiddler for help in decoding it simply becase ASCII characters are not likely to be
> among the characters.

What I see is a string of pure garbage _here_. On l-k. Large part of that
garbage obviously coming from kooks with agenda. Could we please take that
shite to more appropriate place? Alt.sex.encodings.byte.byte.byte, whatever.
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