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    1 year ago

    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.