Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding

>> > A path is always a Unicode string, while a DB name can be an arbitrary >> > binary blob. >> >> On many POSIX platforms, a path is a blob which does not contain >> '\000'. These systems do not enforce Unicode encoding at all. > > My mistake. I was unaware. > On those platforms, how do you type a path name into a terminal? There are some files which are not directly nameable. Many programs support special sequences such as “Ctrl+V 3 7 7” to enter arbitrary bytes, but that's not universal. Depending on the actual implementation of the terminal, cut-and-paste of funny file names can work, too. Older programs have trouble accessing such files even if the user chooses them in a file selection dialog, but current version are supposed to have been fixed (including OpenJDK, which took a ridiculously long time). Beyond that, it's not much different from dealing with file names in an unfamiliar script.