Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > 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?

Linux filesystems (and others) don't interpret the file names.  They are just 
sequences of bytes.  It is the user space tools like ls, emacs and others that 
 put meaning to these bytes.

        Jan D.