In unix based operating systems are utf6 filenames permissible? If so do I need to do anything special to write the file to disk. Let me explain what I'm hoping to do. I'm writing an application that will transfer a file via ftp to a remote system but the filename is dynamically set to via some set of meta data which potentially could be in utf8. I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to write the file to disk in unix/linux.Also as a follow up does anyone know what would happen if I did upload a utf 8 filename to a system doesn't support utf8?
UTF 8 filenames?
linux;filenames;unicode
On Unix/Linux, a filename is a sequence of any bytes except for a slash or a NUL. A slash separates path components, and a NUL terminates a path name.So, you can use whatever encoding you want for filenames. Some applications may have trouble with some encodings if they are nave about what characters may be in filenames - for example, poorly-written shell scripts often do not handle filenames with spaces.Modern Unix/Linux environments handle UTF-8 encoded filenames just fine. 