Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Hrm.... 8-bit character codes "file doesn't exist" problems...
From: David Winkel (dwinkel@umich.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 13:31:24 EST
> > Besides, there's no real reason why Netatalk should convert
> >file names to 7 bit characters for Unix storage, since Unix
> >filesystems are perfectly capable of using the full 8 bit character
> >set space (minus the nul byte) in file names.
> >
> >Decent shells are easy to configure to pass 8 bit characters, too.
>
> Yeah, but how do you key in a Mac bullet character (Option-8) on a Unix
> keyboard? And since the character code for Unix will map to a different
> character than the same code on the Mac, how do you know if you've made any
> typos?
My favorite is... How do you put a '/' in a unix filename?
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