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Steve Schafer wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:05:17 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > > >And it's "filesystem-safe", which means you can use it in filenames > >without modifying the filesystem to be Unicode-aware. > > That's not necessarily true. UTF-8 uses octets having values in the > range of 0x00 through 0xF4. Those greater than 0x7F can cause problems > with some file systems. I believe you. Do you know which filesystems they are? Unix in general is pretty charset-agnostic, except for reserving 0x00 and 0x2F as pathname terminator and pathname separator. IIRC, this was the major reason the Bell Labs guys invented UTF-8 -- so the Plan9 filesystem could be dumb. -- <kragen@p...> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> The Internet stock bubble didn't burst on 1999-11-08. Hurrah! <URL:http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/bubble.html> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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