In general kernels know nothing about codesets, but filesystems do (e.g., ZFS definitely does). I call this just-use-16 and just-use-8 depending on whether the

In general kernels know nothing about codesets, but filesystems do (e.g., ZFS definitely does). I call this just-use-16 and just-use-8 depending on whether the strings are arrays of bytes or of uint16_t's.