[Novalug] question about linux file names

Peter Larsen plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com
Sun Dec 13 17:00:45 EST 2009


On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 16:20 -0500, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:

> does linux use utf8 character set in file names or do they have to be 
> classic lower ascii minus the forbidden characters?



What-ever your $LANG is set to, is the characterset used. I'm not really
aware of "forbidden" characters for file names, except for \0.


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