Re: LSR - file information [0.24759]

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Sunday, November 27, 2016 5:14 PM
 
> File names are a tricky area in itself.  I think that there is some
> normalization process involved in some systems that tries to make sure
> that something like an ä will be recognized regardless of whether it is
> written as a single character with umlaut or a combining diacritic with
> letter a.
> 
> I am not sure, but I think Linux does not even try at least on its
> native file systems.  No idea how this would work with Windows.

I successfully saved your email with a name of éèö.eml in Windows 
Vista, so I presume all later versions of Windows will be happy with
UTF8 file names.

Even using  "filename_名字.eml" works fine, at least for Windows
native applications like Windows Mail.

Trevor