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Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems?

From Unknown <dog@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems?
Date 2016-03-17 09:42 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <pan.2016.03.17.19.47.13@gmail.com> (permalink)
References <n5i7ap@dont-email.me> <n5k3pncq@news.xmission.com> <4ffdf217fbcdd908d0f1596646de0a24@remailer.privacy.at> <n5n1v4$1dk$1@news.xmission.com>

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On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:48:20 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:

> In article <4ffdf217fbcdd908d0f1596646de0a24@remailer.privacy.at>,
> Anonymous Remailer (austria) <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> ranted and
> raved:
>>
>>Kenny McCormack <gaze...@shell.xmission.com> [KM]: KM>     1) It /is/
>>more restrictive in what are legal filename KM>     characters.  IMHO,
>>the Unix method (of allowing just about KM>     anything) is just plain
>>nuts.
>>
>>If all unix users lived in an english speaking country, then ASCII
>>characters plus a few punctuation marks for filenames might suffice. Now
>>japanese and korean people obviously cannot say the same. The world out
>>there is bigger than what we think and your notion of "legal" does not
>>apply universally... Unicode and its various encodings are the norm for
>>millions of people, who don't share (and don't give a dime about) your
>>view of what is legal.
>>
>>It's a good thing that unix, although invented and first used in the US,
>>does not impose ad-hoc unnecessary restrictions on filenames. Learn how
>>to live with this.
>>
Yes catering for japanese and korean and Arabic, Cyrillic, Hindi ...
via Unicode is great.
But messing ASCII for ENGLISH by replacing the quote with 3 bytes is
ABSURD!!

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Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2015-12-26 16:30 +0100
  Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-12-26 21:48 +0000
    Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-12-27 00:06 +0000
      Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> - 2015-12-26 19:24 -0500
        Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-03 05:27 +0000
          Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-01-02 22:05 -0800
    Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 09:42 +0000
      Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2016-03-17 16:30 +0100
        Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 15:54 +0000

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