[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:50:22 +0200
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:

It's more than theory.
You can use file names under Linux that are no valid UTF-8.
At work I see it every week.


> 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?


Mattias