Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 26, 2009 14:44 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by jreiser
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

I never proposed radix-65. Radix-65 (26 upper case, 26 lower case, 10 digits, dot hyphen underscore) is what the POSIX standard ALREADY says is all you can depend on; nothing else is portable by that spec.

I want to be able to count on more than what the POSIX spec says; I want to be able to use the entire Unicode character set, minus the control chars and a few additional constraints to prevent lots of problems for the general-purpose user.