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bawolfflast Wednesday at 7:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

What exactly is the lowest common denominator platform we are trying to target here where we need 7bit ascii? MS-dos?


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theamklast Thursday at 4:36 AM

Any system which uses encodings, including Windows and Linux in non-utf8 locale.

keyboredlast Wednesday at 7:55 AM

Could just be Linux. Filenames are just bytes so two equivalent Unicode filenames that have been normalized differently could be confusing. I guess?

I guess since I’m too afraid to use non-ASCII in filenames much.

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