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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:18:18 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
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Chris,

It couldn't have been that hard to interpret, could it? Anyway, you 
answered my question about whether / which Windows platforms support 
Unicode file names.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:12 2002-07-24, Chris January wrote:
> > AIX supports unicode, not sure about others though.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:19:28PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > Wayne,
> > >
> > > As far back as Unix v6 (for a quaint old processor called the PDP-11) the
> > > only characters forbidden for use in Unix path names were the slash 
> and the
> > > NUL.
> > >
> > > Just out of curiosity, are there any Unix or Unix-alike systems with
> > > Unicode file name support? Linux? Windows?
>
>I don't know what you mean by "Windows?" here, but Windows NT/2000/XP use
>native Unicode filenames. They are converted to/from ANSI as appropriate for
>compatibility with programs targetted for the more crippled Windows
>platforms.
>
>Chris


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