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Filenames are text if you ever want to let a user interact with them by name.
by bartwe 8y ago
Filenames are text if you ever want to let a user interact with them by name.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoI addressed this in my original comment.
- ProblemFactory 8y agoThe two conditions * OS treats filenames as bytes and allows arbitrary byte strings, * Users want to edit filenames as text are in conflict and you can't solve it without forcing some encoding or giving them a byte editor. The solution "filenames are bytes but we'll treat it as ASCII because 0x32-0x7E should be enough for anybody" is not acceptable for möst of thé wõrld.