kimbo@nbires.UUCP (08/11/83)
From: kimbo (Kimbo Peebles-Mundy) To: net_unix-wizards One good reason to allow all those "useless" characters in filenames is that they are not useless to everyone. Suppose that you wanted to support an international character set, wouldn't you just love to gobble up those top 128 characters to do just that? I admit that the shells make a mess of the parity bit to flag quoting, but that doesn't mean that that BUG should force you to give up 128 useful characters. It is true that US only systems often have trouble with unexpected characters, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't be put to good use. Kimbo B. Peebles-Mundy, NBI Inc. {allegra,ucbvax}!nbires!kimbo
smb@ulysses.UUCP (08/15/83)
Just to keep the flames going, a program here broke when run on a UNIX that didn't allow 8-bit filenames.