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1) Not everybody, or even a majority, agrees that the current state is a mistake 2) Change what to what? There are multiple filesystems systems (and OSs) with
by gpderetta 4y ago
1) Not everybody, or even a majority, agrees that the current state is a mistake
2) Change what to what? There are multiple filesystems systems (and OSs) with different and sometimes incompatible filename encodings. Who picks the winner?
3) There is irony on dropping backward compat and requiring UTF-8, an econding whose claim to fame is backward compatibility with ASCII based systems (and not coincidentally was designed by UNIX Elder Ones)
- eviks 4y agoI was responding to your specific argument ignoring the bigger future for the smaller past, not sure how the broader questions about what others think etc is relevant 1) so? That will be true for anything 2) sequence of bytes to human encoding. Who picked the loser??? This would similarly be some unidentifiable group of people. You can start by picking the winner for yourself, even at a conceptual level 3) no irony, sequence of bytes is not ASCII