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> unix filenames "like to present a convincing façade of being UTF-8" Except they never have? Unix paths have always been bags of bytes, both before Unicode an
by MrRadar 8y ago
> unix filenames "like to present a convincing façade of being UTF-8"
Except they never have? Unix paths have always been bags of bytes, both before Unicode and UTF-8 were invented and after. It's just convention that modern Unix systems use UTF-8 as the text encoding for paths.
- masklinn 8y ago> Except they never have? And neither have Windows paths ever actually pretended to be UTF-16, that's my point.