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Re: readdir() on linux


On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, marco wrote:

> Ok, does anybody know if the same applies to other unices (e.g.:
> AIX/Solaris)?
> I would like to understand how Linux compare to these commercial OS's.

  In a sense, it can be argued that Linux is more compliant to
Single Unix Specification than (some) commerical Unix. Unix filesystem
never has had the internal information about the 'encoding/charset'
other than they're null terminated sequences of octets. When all
we move onto UTF-8, it shouldn't matter. Until then, you have
to rely on external information.

 Jungshik

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