Re: character encoding
On 2008-01-02 14:53:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> Where does encoding come in to play in the handling of file names? The
> kernel, I assume, just sees byte sequences, right? When you interact with a
> terminal, or other software, you must enter a filename and hope you are
> matching the encoding under which the file name was created, or it won't
> match the byte sequence when the unterlying system call is made . . . is
> this an accurate description of the situation?
I think that this rather come from the file system implementation.
For instance, case-insensitive file systems are a bit smarter than
doing one-to-one byte-sequence matching.
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