Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)

viro
2004-02-16T15:48:57Z

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:46:21PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> The current situation is that so many applications simply treat
> filenames as arbitrary sequences of bytes. With many encodings, this
> simply happens to work, and an encoding mis-match will result in some
> incorrect characters being displayed for byte values > 127. However,
> some encodings, such as UTF-8, are simply _not_ compatible with the
> 'you can also treat it like an arbitrary byte string model', and there

Excuse me? Would you fscking mind explaining what, in your opinion,
UTF-8 is and what makes "simply _not_ compatible" with aforementioned
model?