Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:46:51 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) |
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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 :)
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