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I wrote an essay a while ago about fixing Unix/Linux filenames here: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html https://www.dwheeler.com/e
by dwheeler 9y ago
I wrote an essay a while ago about fixing Unix/Linux filenames here: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames....
This is a big disconnect between "what most users expect" and "what systems actually do". Usually generally expect that filenames are sequences of characters - and today almost everyone expects that they must be in UTF-8 on a Unix-like system. That is not, of course, what most systems actually do.