H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Actually, the conditions for non-ASCII filenames is even stricter: for
> the system to work consistently the way you describe, the ENTIRE
> SYSTEM needs to use the same locale.
It needs not. If the administrator/distribution files are in ASCII,
and users don't need to access each other's files, there is no
problem with user A having /home/A in EUC-JP encoding and user B
having /home/B in UTF-8 encoding.
> FILENAME ENCODINGS IN DIFFERENT LOCALES DO NOT WORK. PERIOD.
Sure. Therefore it's best to use non-ASCII filenames only after having
switched one's system to UTF-8, not before.
Bruno
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