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minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-21 year agoLinux APIs are 8bit, instead of 16bit, however the filesystem encoding can be anything if the user wants. In practice we all use UTF-8 but correct software has to encode to the correct one just in case. There is also still a max path length, but it’s longer like 4096.
Linux APIs are 8bit, instead of 16bit, however the filesystem encoding can be anything if the user wants.
In practice we all use UTF-8 but correct software has to encode to the correct one just in case.
There is also still a max path length, but it’s longer like 4096.