Hello,
Ian Abbott asked:
> > Could this also be a problem on Unix systems using multibyte encoded
> > (UTF-8) filesystems, if not now then in the future?
no, this cannot happen, because of how UTF-8 is designed:
1) If a character is represented by a single byte, then the the most
significant bit is not set, and the byte is the same as in ASCII.
In other words, the 7bit ASCII is part of UTF-8.
2) If a character is represented by a sequence of bytes, then each of these
bytes has the most significant bit set. (Thus no '/' can appear there.)
[I'd like to thank to Jakub Jelinek for teaching me this.]
Paul said:
> I doubt it. Historically Unix has always used bytes, not characters,
> to name files. So it doesn't care about your encoding. I doubt
> whether this will ever change.
Paul, your intuition was right. Actually, using utf-8 for filenames
prevents this problem in principle.
Have a nice day,
Stepan
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