Hah! This reminds me of a time when Windows would allow files with names that 
were legal for Mac to be written to its own file system who’s filenames were 
NOT legal. The result is you could save the files, but you could never access 
or delete them, neither could you delete any folder that contained them. They 
had to write utilities to rename such files and they weren't 100% successful.

Bob S


On Aug 16, 2023, at 12:34 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode 
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

I suspect (2) is overall better - its only downside is that you would not be 
able to manipulate files on the server which had badly encoded utf-8 names. 
However, that seems like an extreme edge case; and one which you could work 
around by just setting the LANG env var to a native encoding and put 
appropriate code in your app to deal with.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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