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Yes, and they also don't add single quotes to filenames that contain whitespace characters when displaying them as mentioned in the article.

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So then BSD's behavior isn't very useful then, right? You can't actually rely on 1 filename = 1 line.

No because in the case of the "ls" command, it replaces non-printable characters with a question mark '?', including newline characters. I believe the actual source code for this behavior can be seen here: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/ls/utf8.c

So then BSD can't be guaranteed to accurately display the filename. Either way, you have to pick a side.

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