> Perhaps, but it also can't be avoided. Everything can appear in filenames. We want filenames to be able to contain any character. Who is "we" ? I wouldn't mi

> Perhaps, but it also can't be avoided. Everything can appear in filenames. We want filenames to be able to contain any character. Who is "we" ? I wouldn't mind some 'sane' limits, eg UTF8, no control characters and no names starting with a dash. Still hoping for the day that some distribution sets a mount option to enforce sane filenames by default and starts weeding out the application bugs it'll trigger.. https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html