Maybe Linux (and other OSes) should deprecate non utf8 filenames and start disallowing creating filenames that aren't valid utf-8?
It seems silly that directory entries are just binary blobs and yet 99.99% of all software I know of passes around paths as strings. We could ask all software to stop that (boil the ocean) or we could just ask the OSes to stop it (many less OSes than all the other software)
It seems silly that directory entries are just binary blobs and yet 99.99% of all software I know of passes around paths as strings. We could ask all software to stop that (boil the ocean) or we could just ask the OSes to stop it (many less OSes than all the other software)