Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> >         address@hidden, address@hidden
> > Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:07:23 +0100
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > And Linux filesystems use UTF-8 for file names anyway, right?
> > Linux filesystems do not use any encoding, they use raw bytes.
>
> Yes, but what kind of bytes would those be on a typical box that uses
> non-ASCII characters in file names?  I know it can be _anything_, but
> I think typically these characters will be encoded in UTF-8.

The trend for Gnome and KDE and other desktop environments is to use UTF-8 
(just about everywhere, not just file names), so you can say UTF-8 is most likely.

        Jan D.