> On 16 May 2017, at 17:52, Alastair Houghton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 16 May 2017, at 16:44, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 16 May 2017, at 17:30, Alastair Houghton via Unicode >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> HFS(+), NTFS and VFAT long filenames are all encoded in some variation on >>> UCS-2/UTF-16. ... >> >> The filesystem directory is using octet sequences and does not bother >> passing over an encoding, I am told. Someone could remember one that to used >> UTF-16 directly, but I think it may not be current. > > No, that’s not true. All three of those systems store UTF-16 on the disk > (give or take).
I am not speaking about what they store, but how the filesystem identifies files.
