No its on a x free server. rm, mv, cp dont work. I agree the low level stuff should never care, they are always just binblobs in kernel, and should be. Though

No its on a x free server. rm, mv, cp dont work. I agree the low level stuff should never care, they are always just binblobs in kernel, and should be. Though there are certainly still bugs caused by encoding changes of some conf file gets read by it. The advantage of forcing it on a filesystemlevel was that the gigantic pile of old material with varying encoding at least was consistently off between locales rather than working for the people who used it most, and fail in the rare but critical cases for the people who rarely worked on it. Basically forcing people to fix their shit.