Safename: breaking compatibility beteen system

Posted May 20, 2016 12:34 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
In reply to: Safename: breaking compatibility beteen system by NAR
Parent article: Safename: restricting "dangerous" file names

> In my experience using accented characters always creates problems down the line. There's the problem of different encodings, so if the file was created using ISO-8859-2

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It used to be like that... in the '90s. I mean, I live in a country where a proper encoding is vital to all our ą's and ź's. It's all in the past now, dead and buried. (Except for an occasional system made by occasional clueless uni-lingual Americans ;) )