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I don't follow, looking at the number of files on my laptop right now a very, very small percentage of them are intended for my interaction. The vast majority
by mbell 14y ago
I don't follow, looking at the number of files on my laptop right now a very, very small percentage of them are intended for my interaction. The vast majority are intended purely for interaction by programs / the system. That tells me the file system should handle what is best for that case and my interaction should be proxied by another program that makes the file system fit for my consumption, e.g. Finder.
- eridius 14y agoOf all the files on my system, the only ones that even hit the normalization issue are explicitly meant for human interaction. OS files typically aren't named using non-ASCII characters.
- mbell 14y agoThat is exactly why they are a special case that should be handled by the file manager, not the file system.
- eridius 14y agoYou seem to be deliberately ignoring the fact that they cannot be handled by a layer on top of the filesystem without introducing all sorts of weird behavior and severe inefficiencies.