Re: [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

From: Tom Honermann (tom_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-16 15:15:14

On 8/16/22 3:41 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> 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.

Could you please provide a citation for that?

I have experience with people continuing to use Shift-JIS for file names 
in recent-ish times.

Tom.

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