So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.