Re: NFS4 requires UTF-8

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20020220163926.B25285@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> For ext2 and almos all "traditional" unix fs they don't care about
> encodings, it is just bytes. so if you type in utf-8 they are stored
> in utf-8.
> 

This behaviour is mandated by POSIX.  Any nonzero sequence of bytes
except '/' and '\0' are legal in filenames, in any order.  The only
ones which have special meaning are "." and "..".

	-hpa
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