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by userbinator
1076 days ago
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No, IMHO escaping is an elegantly simple concept; it's just that for some reason (like basic arithmetic) people don't seem to be taught enough about it to understand. Two visually identical file names may map to different files (because confusables[1]), or two different names map to the same file (because normalization[2]), or the ".jpg" at the end may not actually be the extension (because right-to-left override[3]), Those are all because of Unicode, which is an even worse idea in general. |
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> it's just that for some reason (like basic arithmetic) people don't seem to be taught enough about it to understand.
That's the same argument used to defend manual memory management. But education is not enough. Escaping is something you have to remember to do every time*, or it'll blow up spectacularly. Even knowledgeable professionals mess it up, or it wouldn't occupy 6 of the 25 spots in this list.
> Those are all because of Unicode, which is an even worse idea in general.
What's the alternative? Japanese speakers writing file names in ASCII? Unicode is a modern marvel, it's our fault we use it where it doesn't belong.
* Not necessarily every input/output, but at least every system that interacts with it.