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by Koromix 3655 days ago
Linux filesystems are not encoding aware. Paths are just treated as opaque byte strings. However, there is ongoing work add configurable safe filenames to Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/686789/

But it won't allow you to force ISO-8859-1 in this form. However you could filter out non-ASCII characters.