unicode filenames

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:24:52AM +0000, Alex Martelli wrote:
> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>    ...
> > It means that filenames are strings of bytes.  What the meaning of those
> > bytes are is entirely application dependent.  They could be raw ASCII
> 
> ALMOST entirely -- for example, none of the bytes is allowed to have 
> the value 47 (since that is the code for "slash" in ASCII).

I believe slash and the null byte are the only disallowed characters in unix
path names.

-Andrew.