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		hannibal5 on Oct 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fixing Unix Filenames (2012) This is solving the problem in the wrong place. The proper way for OS is to treat filenames as binary sequences like Linux does and have no problems. The problems that arise elsewhere should be solved elsewhere.

overgard on Oct 31, 2013 [–]

So instead of solving it in one place, we should solve it in hundreds of places?

ketralnis on Oct 31, 2013 | [–]

If the problem is the shell like I assert, there are probably fewer shells than filesystems

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