alt Hacker NewsMeanwhile, Windows uses UTF-16 everywhere internally, so "a" and "あ" are both 2 bytes large. You'd still have to exclude surrogate pairs and the Unicode control characters from a filename.
Meanwhile, Windows uses UTF-16 everywhere internally, so "a" and "あ" are both 2 bytes large. You'd still have to exclude surrogate pairs and the Unicode control characters from a filename.
Approximately nothing that uses UTF-16 validates it (I can’t think of a single thing that does), so surrogates will work fine. At least until a UTF-8 system touches it, because they normally do validate (Go is an uncommon exception in not validating).