Would you expect "install" and "Install" to be the same name? In most languages you'd be right to, but if your FS were using the Turkish locale, you'd be wrong[

Would you expect "install" and "Install" to be the same name? In most languages you'd be right to, but if your FS were using the Turkish locale, you'd be wrong[0]. So now we need to stamp a "locale" on the file system to avoid problems -- but then how do you carry that over when you're e.g. unpacking a zip you received from a Turkish person and your own file system has a different idea of what characters are the same or not? (I suppose I should say "glyphs", but even that's quite iffy in unicode terms.) I'm not sure that having such a fundamental thing as whether two file names are the same be dependent on such complex things as unicode, canonical forms, etc. is a good idea. I won't comment on whether it's more user-friendly or hostile -- I have no data to back that up anyway. It's ridiculously complex and that's what I would base my decision on. At least using "a string of bytes" as the file name is simple conceptually and pretty hard to get wrong. [0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I