Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 20:28:52 EST


ReiserFS 6 plans to allow files to be associated with arbitrary files and found by those associations. Some of those files will consist of ascii keywords, some will be icon images, etc..... Human readability should not be considered fundamental to a name component, especially since programs with no interest in readability may be the only direct users of the name.

Hans




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