It sure is possible, and it does not sound that insane if you are trying to recover data or the like. Just imagine working with legacy media (retro computing) or from other operating systems (e.g. MacOS, Windows, OS/2, ...). I did not assume that any filesystem would check the filenames for correct UTF-8 encoding, especially not ZFS, which comes from an old Unix and in my mind should store just bytes composing filenames.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^9: how are ARGV and filename strings represented? by afoken
in thread how are ARGV and filename strings represented? by almr

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