Re: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.

From: Mike Fedyk
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 23:33:53 EST


On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:36:24PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Nico Schottelius wrote:
>
> > What Linux supported filesystems support UTF-8 filenames?
>
> Filenames, to the kernel, are a sequence of 8-bit things commonly
> called "bytes" or "octets", excluding '/' and '\0'.
>

You can have "/" in the filename also, though that could be encoded somehow...
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