On Iau, 2005-08-25 at 20:00 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Which standards? Traditional unix namespace is a sequence of bytes with '/' as a seperator and \0 as a terminator. There are no other restrictions. UTF-8 is essentially a retrofit onto that.
> The standards I've read (mostly XML- and web-related specs) > do say that non-standard UTF-8 octet sequences should be rejected. If you follow the thread further various people pointed out that POSIX and other standard documents are actually more restrictive in their guarantees so my belief by a strict standards reading is wrong. It'll break a few apps if you enforced it (lots if you took the minimal posix requirement). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
