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Re: Filename encoding


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Filename encoding
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:00:18 +0200

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:29:06 +0100
> 
> Does anyone know of systems where the file name encoding is commonly
> different from locale encoding?  Is it the case on Windows?

Windows stores file names on disk encoded in UTF-16, but converts them
to the current codepage if you use Posix-style interfaces like 'open'
and 'rename'.  (There are parallel APIs that accept UTF-16 encoded
file names.)




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