Bruno Haible wrote on 2000-08-03 21:10 UTC:
> The point of ASCII compatibility of UTF-8 is that software changes are
> kept to a minimum. It would be stupid if the kernel had to verify
> every filename passed to it via a system call or read from disk to see
> whether it's well-formed UTF-8. For the kernel, a filename continues
> to be a sequence of bytes with a NUL byte at the end.
Amen!
As to the remaining discussion between Henry and Peter, please reread
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2000-07/msg00073.html
carefully, which I believe to be the only appropriate answer here.
Markus
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