Interesting in the sense of "May you live in interesting times", yes. It introduces near-endless complications, especially in the face of Unicode, and one shou

Interesting in the sense of "May you live in interesting times", yes. It introduces near-endless complications, especially in the face of Unicode, and one should think thoroughly about it before implementing it, as you can read in Torvalds' initial reaction linked elsewhere in this discussion. But the way they did it seems relatively sane to me, with an easy way to compartmentalize it to, e.g., a Steam directory.