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Re: NFS4 requires UTF-8

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:08:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > If a filename is a BOM followed by "hello", how can I enter it?
> 
> \ufeffhello

But I can't see the BOM; ls just shows "hello".  That's why I'm
suggesting that zero-width characters not useful in filenames be
escaped as the above by "ls" and friends.  (Nothing new; ls already
escapes ASCII control characters and other things.)

The unclear parts are 1: which characters can be escaped like this
(probably the vast majority of unprinting characters), and 2: what to do
about the characters that can't.

(By the way, you're reiterating stuff I and others have already said
about filesystems not normalizing; we've been there already, and
as a rarity, nobody's disagreeing. :)

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Glenn Maynard
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