RE: [Openexr-devel] UNICODE support in openexr file I/O

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:

> On UNIX what's happening is that you're passing this string, it gets 
> down in C to 'fopen' and eventually to the OS and file system which 
> recognizes the string as a UTF8-encoded name.

Traditional Unix doesn't know about UTF8-encoded filenames as far as I 
am aware.  They simply support any octet sequence which does not 
include embedded nulls.  But OSX's native (non-Unix) filesystem does 
use unicode in its filenames and it balks if some characters appear in 
filenames.

Bob
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