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| From | Unknown <dog@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? |
| Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:42:51 -0000 (UTC) |
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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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