Valid file-name characters

[Chris January]

> 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?
I don't know what you mean by Windows? here, but Windows NT/2000/XP use
native Unicode filenames. They are converted to/from ANSI as appropriate for
compatibility with programs targetted for the more crippled Windows
platforms.

Chris



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