Re: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.

viro
2004-02-10T23:18:04Z

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:04:52PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> I expect UTF-8 to have no multi-byte sequences containing NUL
> but it might be awkward if a multi-byte sequence contained
> 0x2F (/). I would hope that the committees chose to avoid
> using symbol and punctuation byte-codes for alphanumeric
> sequences.

UTF-8 single-byte sequences are in range 0--127 with obvious mapping to
ASCII. All bytes in UTF-8 multi-byte sequences are in range 128--255.