Re: [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-16 07:41:19

On 8/16/22 03:08, Emil Dotchevski via Boost wrote:
> На пн, 15.08.2022 г. в 16:54 ч. Vinnie Falco via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> написа:
> 
>> it should
>> be completely portable, except that it requires that directories are
>> possible and that the filesystem isn't weird (I don't really care
>> about compatibility with grandpa's EPROMs that can hold 9-bit flat
>> files).
> 
> AFAIK on posix it is usual that file names are simply zero terminated byte
> sequences, which means that UTF-8 won't be _completely_ portable, and not
> only on grandpa's EPROMs.

In practice, paths are in UTF-8 on all modern POSIX systems.