Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior)

Jamie Lokier
2004-02-17T16:46:58Z

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 :)

-- Jamie