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- From: seismo!enea!tut!intrin.uucp!jty (Jyrki Yli-Nokari)
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 20:54:42 -0200
- Organization: Intrinsic Oy, Tampere, Finland
-
- There seems to be misunderstanding about Unix not accepting 8 bit characters
- in file names.
-
- I would like to point out that Unix is perfectly happy to include
- ANY 8 bit characters in the file name, EXCEPT slash '/' or null '\0'.
-
- [ Depends on which system you're referring to: some really do
- strip the eighth bit in the file system, not in the shell.
- Though there are many shells that also strip that bit,
- as you point out. -mod ]
-
- The REAL problem is the shell that strips the 8:th bit off for its
- own purposes.
-
- At least IBM's AIX and HP's HP-UX have fixed this problem.
-
- Regardless of the case sensitivity we MUST start from the fact
- that characters are made out of at least eight bits, not seven = USASCII.
-
- Now that I use 7 bit modified ascii character set,
- the O umlaut in my terminal is really a backslash '\'
- as far as Unix is concerned.
-
- Try explaning that to a casual end-user, who wants to create a file
- called '\rkki'.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 94
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