Yeesh, I thought it was bad enough that filenames are allowed to contain spaces, shell metacharacters, and punctuation. Now they can have high-bit and even multibyte characters as well? What next, paragraph breaks, different fonts and sizes, and bold, italic, and underlined characters? Please, can we embed tables, frames, and images into our filenames? How about OLE objects and active scripts? I want to put AJAX code into the filename of an icon on my desktop so it can show me an RSS feed...

Bah.

The only sane solution to this nonsense is to split the role of the file identifier, which is used by software accessing the file, apart from the file description, which is shown to end users. Having the same filename fill both roles is nothing but trouble.

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