DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

> And that would be needed by every application that wants to work reliably on real-world Unix systems (where filenames occasionally come from ancient backups and from FAT32 USB sticks and from zip files and from malicious users etc, which won't respect anyone's desire for a perfect Unicode world)

Well, I can say for certain that there are many places where it's not just ancient backups nor FAT32 USB sticks, but just regular file names used every day. As soon as you have shared file servers for lots of employees, there's never a single moment where you can declare that the encoding will change because you'll break a lot of shortcuts and file names for plenty of employees. Thus you keep in place the perfectly working system you used to have, and do that for decades if needed because in the end the one without encoding is still the one that works best (most users access only their own files with their machine's encoding, and shared files rarely use fancy chars). I personally never put non-ASCII chars in my file names so I'm fine but I've seen quite a bunch of filesystems with mixes of CP1252 from Windows users via a Samba share and ISO8859-1 from UNIX/Linux users via an NFS share.