Comment Comment by ninkendo One pedantic qualification: any byte except 0x2f (`/`) or 0x00.This actually rules out nearly any non-UTF8 character set (besides ASCII.)Quote from Linus, which reminds me of Henry Ford’s “you can have any color you want, so long as it’s black”:> And that one true format is UTF-8. End of story. If you try to talk to the kernel in UCS-2 or anything else, you _will_ fail.https://lore.kernel.org/all/Pine.LNX.4.58.0402141827200.1402... parent ninkendo 4 years ago
This actually rules out nearly any non-UTF8 character set (besides ASCII.)
Quote from Linus, which reminds me of Henry Ford’s “you can have any color you want, so long as it’s black”:
> And that one true format is UTF-8. End of story. If you try to talk to the kernel in UCS-2 or anything else, you _will_ fail.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Pine.LNX.4.58.0402141827200.1402...