From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:40:19 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > Come over here to Windows.  UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a   
   > total pain.   
      
   Microsoft (and Sun, with Java) adopted Unicode at precisely the wrong   
   time, back when everybody believed the Unicode folks who said that it   
   would remain a fixed-length 16-bit code.   
      
   > Microsoft is rumored to be working on a UTF-8 API for Win32 / Win64.  I   
   > will believe it when I see it.   
      
   Linux simply ignored the issue. Filespecs passed to the kernel are split   
   at ASCII “/” characters and terminated by NUL. And those are the only byte   
   values with special interpretations; file/directory names are free to   
   contain anything else. As a result, it works seamlessly with UTF-8.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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