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> narrow strings are considered UTF-8 by default almost everywhere

It means that this is mostly true.

I dunno what it should be. There are benefits and costs on both allowing and restricting the names. As well as there are good reason for the kernel alone to support them even tough all the userland doesn't. But it does mean that you just use UTF-8 and it's done.



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