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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: UTF-8
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> Can I use UTF-8 encoded filenames?

I think so, but bear in mind that many standard programs will not
behave usefully.  For example, "ls" won't show the names properly, and
the shell will treat each byte as a character when globbing.

-- Richard

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