Re: : bash script issue

David Collier-Brown <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:50:23 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug
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On 08/17/2014 06:11 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: William Muriithi <[email protected]>
>
> Dealing with filnames with embedded "magic" characters is a hard
> problem.
>
> Filesystem:
>
> Underneath it all, NTFS uses UTF16 for its filesystem names.
> Who knows for SMB/CIFS (what Samba provides).
Samba delivers the ascii subset of UTF-8, with some non-case-sensitivity
filtering to carefully match WinBlows /observed/ behaviour.  It's a
subset of the claimed behaviour (;-))

--dave

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