Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:06:46PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > And as for the filename problems :
> > - just mangle existing invalid filenames when a default encoding is
> > agreed upon
> > - refuse to write new files with invalid filenames just like you would
> > with the few names forbidden in ascii - apps will learn to cope.
>
> What names forbidden in ASCII?

I think that all ASCII characters below 0x20 are forbidden in
Unix file-names and others shown in the reference cited and
"disapproved".

http://www.med.nyu.edu/rcr/rcr/nyu_vms/unixfileanddirectorynames.htm


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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