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1) Nope. 2) Yes, we need to keep backward compatibility. What I'm saying is that promoting UTF8 everywhere, without specifically stressing the fact that files

by malkia 7y ago

1) Nope. 2) Yes, we need to keep backward compatibility. What I'm saying is that promoting UTF8 everywhere, without specifically stressing the fact that filesystems (in general) do no observe UFT8, leads to API/LIB designs that lack good support there. Path/filename/dirname/whatever should be a different kind of "string".