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Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Mon Jun 10 14:50:53 CDT 2024


Piotr Karocki via Unicode wrote in
 <f5bd6f927163c12487c8ec2ae7a22e10 at mail.gmail.com>:
 |In my humble opinion, only "portable filename character set" should be used
 |in filenames.
 |This is the one and only character set that is truly portable between
 |operating systems, works everywhere and everytime, without any problems or
 |inconveniences.
 |
 |Defined in POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1)
 |https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html\
 |#tag_03_282

Only to note that the minimum acceptible path length of POSIX is
14, but DOS and 8+3 seems advisable, if you go that route.
(I have lost it not so many years ago, myself.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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