On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:08:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > If a filename is a BOM followed by "hello", how can I enter it? > > \ufeffhello
But I can't see the BOM; ls just shows "hello". That's why I'm suggesting that zero-width characters not useful in filenames be escaped as the above by "ls" and friends. (Nothing new; ls already escapes ASCII control characters and other things.) The unclear parts are 1: which characters can be escaped like this (probably the vast majority of unprinting characters), and 2: what to do about the characters that can't. (By the way, you're reiterating stuff I and others have already said about filesystems not normalizing; we've been there already, and as a rarity, nobody's disagreeing. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
