File name encoding
Back in college one of my hobbies was UTF-8 on Linux. I spent hours tinkering around and reading, and from that era I retained a sense of awe for Jungshik for his gnarly posts demonstrating knowledge of pretty much everything Unicode. It took me a while to realize that years later it was the same Jungshik who was contributing to Chrome.
Which takes us to r7455, a revert of a change that added a
conversion from a FilePath (representing a platform-native path:
UTF-16 on Windows, UTF-8 on OS X) to UTF-8. Why is it bad? Like a
good student, I know that Linux paths are bytes, with no encoding.
But despite my impression otherwise that UTF-8 is a safe assumption
these days, Jungshik swears that it is not. And I know enough to know
that that Jungshik knows more than me. (And also that the Asian situation
wrt Unicode is complicated.)