Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:01:31 -0500
> 
> It's actually a bit worse: it shouldn't just be encodable with utf-8,
> but it should also be the case that encoding to utf-8 and back should
> return the exact same string (since these are filenames and will be
> compared with simple byte-comparison in the kernel).

What kernel are we talking about here?  The Windows filesystem, for
example, does not compare bytes, but rather 16-bit words (UTF-16).
And Linux filesystems use UTF-8 for file names anyway, right?