From Unicode to paths

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:01:32 +0200 YAP <x112358 at gmail.com> wrote:

Y> But for a path for instance where national characters certainly is
Y> allowed is it in the general case (Windows/Linux) expected to be a
Y> UTF-8 string or what?

 Depends on the system. Under Windows (NT), the paths are Unicode (UTF-16)
so there is no problem. Under Unix there is no fixed encoding for them, so
while UTF-8 is used most often in more or less modern Linux systems you
can't be sure about it.

 Regards,
VZ

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