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In which the author takes a long and winding path to what most of us already know, "paths are fundamentally bytes".

• deathanatos 8y ago
  … but also, sort-of, but not really, text: they get displayed to the user, they get input from the user, and they get emitted in logs, messages, etc. All as text. And that rub between where they're bytes but they should have been text, that's the problem and that's the complexity.
• JdeBP 8y ago
  ... except on the operating systems, discussed at length in this very same discussion, where paths are fundamentally 16-bit words.