Re: Unicode characters in filenames

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 13:36:09 EDT

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"Vaintroub, Wladislav" wrote on 2000-04-17 15:55 UTC:
> Does anybody know of operating systems (except for Win32) that support
> non-ASCII characters in file names?

Plan9, BeOS, Linux (*), Solaris 2.8 (+), any other POSIX system with a
UTF-8 locale and terminal emulator, etc.

(*) the necessary updates are quite new and not yet found in most Linux
distributions as of April 2000. For details on the current status, see
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html>

(+) http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.45.13/I18NDG/@Ab2PageView/10821?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

Markus

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