Comment 6 for bug 872376

whoops, above quote is from
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html#utf8
Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames:
Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems
David A. Wheeler
2009-03-24 (revised 2011-07-29)

which states:
"""
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX pathnames and filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes. A pathname lets you select a particular file, and may include zero or more “/” characters. Each pathname component (separated by “/”) is a filename; filenames cannot contain “/”. Neither filenames nor pathnames can contain the ASCII NUL character (\0), because that is the terminator.
"""