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Control characters in file namesControl characters in file namesPosted Nov 25, 2010 16:29 UTC (Thu) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683)In reply to: Control characters in file names by vonbrand Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
They are also nearly impossible to handle correctly in shell scripts, and you should be using UTF8 for file names.
No one is suggesting this be something done in a non-optional way, but the encodings it would actually break that are also in use on Linux systems are very few and far between (probably largely because EVERYTHING expects those to be control characters, and they break shell scripts, etc. Plus we have UTF8)
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