[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)
Martin Schreiber
mse00000 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 09:08:13 CEST 2011
Am 14.09.2011 07:50, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Martin Schreiber<mse00000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Linux expects an array of bytes in filenames (no encoding, no utf-8) AFAIK.
>
> That's a nice theory, but:
>
> All Linux distributions that I know use utf-8
> Android uses utf-8
> Meego uses utf-8
>
> So, do you have any concrete example of new releases of Linux using
> something different from UTF-8 for filenames?
>
Some Samba shares for example and there still are many "old" Linux
systems in the wild. Anyway, I simply wanted to remember the fact.
Martin
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