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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/17/2014 06:11 PM, D. Hugh
Redelmeier wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">| From: William Muriithi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"><william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org></a>
Dealing with filnames with embedded "magic" characters is a hard
problem.
Filesystem:
Underneath it all, NTFS uses UTF16 for its filesystem names.
Who knows for SMB/CIFS (what Samba provides).</pre>
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Samba delivers the ascii subset of UTF-8, with some
non-case-sensitivity filtering to carefully match WinBlows <i>observed</i>
behaviour. It's a subset of the claimed behaviour (;-))<br>
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--dave<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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