Patrick McFarland <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 07:34 pm, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> That's why UTF-8 is suggested. UTF-8 has been developed to "fool" the
>> software that need not to be aware of unicodeness of the text it manages
>> to handle it without any hickups *and* to store in the text information
>> about multibyte characters.What characters exactly you do mean? NULL?
>> There is no NULL byte in any UTF-8 string except the one which
>> terminates it.
>
> Bingo. Only the operating system itself and software displaying
> filenames needs to understand Unicode; the file system
> implementation itself just knows its a string of bytes and nothing
> else.
Not even the OS needs to know what the bytes mean. Only applications
displaying the names have reason to interpret the bytes they are
composed of in any specific manner.
--
Måns Rullgård
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