No, in my mind a filename should be an identifier made of a bunch of bytes. How you represent those bytes is not important in the context of the file subsystem.

No, in my mind a filename should be an identifier made of a bunch of bytes. How you represent those bytes is not important in the context of the file subsystem. For me it seems more like a problem with Unicode. I can see why it is the way it is from a certain perspective. Very connivent. But it has broken the underlying abstraction layer.