I think this might just confuse new programmers and the filename thing is especially dangerous since at some point you might want to support i18n there. I think

I think this might just confuse new programmers and the filename thing is especially dangerous since at some point you might want to support i18n there. I think it would be better to have two types of string: 1) unicode strings and 2) arrays of 8 byte data with some string like functions (essentially C strings). The second case is essentially binary data strings.