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I don't know what you're talking about. You said Windows uses UTF-16 and pointed to Wikipedia. I'm only pointing out that that's only true by convention. Window
by burntsushi 7y ago
I don't know what you're talking about. You said Windows uses UTF-16 and pointed to Wikipedia. I'm only pointing out that that's only true by convention. Windows, even today, does not require that its file names be UTF-16.
Whether Linux analogously does the same or not (indeed it does) isn't something I was contesting.
- ygra 7y agoThe file system / object manager is only one part of the whole, though. Object names and namespaces in general will have that restriction, but in user-space there's a lot of Unicode that's treated as text, not a bag of code units. And those things are UTF-16.