bash script issue

David Collier-Brown davec-b-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 17 23:50:23 UTC 2014


On 08/17/2014 06:11 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> 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).
Samba delivers the ascii subset of UTF-8, with some non-case-sensitivity
filtering to carefully match WinBlows /observed/ behaviour.  It's a
subset of the claimed behaviour (;-))

--dave

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