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The proposal just wants to eliminate problematic names that no one uses anyway.

Python 3 is full of problems with fsencoding, to the point that some people want to deprecate the plain C locale (!).

This is hardly a solution.

That's right, no one really uses these kinds of filenames anyway unless they are an attacker. Supporting them simply makes it easy to end up with security vulnerabilities, and it also makes it harder to write code. Let's make things easy.

On the other hand, people may try to create "Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames.html". I'd much rather have any bytestring as filename and explicit structure.

There's a manpage that cautions how to handle this of you called your file "-" (without the quotes) IIRC ... some people just want to watch the World burn.

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