Re: uuencode: multi-bytes char in remote file name contains bytes >0x80

[John Cowan]

Eric Blake scripsit:

> [B]ut if filename is _not_ a character string in the current locale, then
> the output would _not_ be a text file (among other things, a text file
> has the property that at least one locale can interpret every byte
> sequence in the file as valid characters).  

Say what?  The name of a file is not a byte sequence in the file.  I
don't see how it follows that because a file is a text file, its name
is a character string in some locale.

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