Valid file-name characters

[Wayne Willcox]

AIX supports unicode, not sure about others though.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:19:28PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Wayne,
> 
> As far back as Unix v6 (for a quaint old processor called the PDP-11) the 
> only characters forbidden for use in Unix path names were the slash and the 
> NUL.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, are there any Unix or Unix-alike systems with 
> Unicode file name support? Linux? Windows?
> 
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
> 
> 
> At 14:01 2002-07-23, wayne wrote:
> >you can use an escaped \ I think that is true in all unixs at least the 
> >modern ones.

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