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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX FilenamesWheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX FilenamesPosted Mar 29, 2009 21:30 UTC (Sun) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by njs Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
OS X is trivial to handle. It only has to continue to work in a compatible way with the previous Mac OS - which wasn't UNIX. So using it as an example of how to "fix" these problems is not a good idea if you care about supporting 40+ years of UNIX programs - which is why this is difficult to change.
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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames Posted Mar 29, 2009 22:07 UTC (Sun) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
Eh...but OSX *does* run 40+ years of UNIX programs. It's pretty clear that the change to require
UTF-8 (and even the change to be case insensitive!) didn't bother most programs.
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