Usage
While system offer a wide choice of characters and bytes to compose filenames, users tend to self-censor.
About nobody wants to use bytes sequence which do not match any kind of character as this would result in non displayable filename.
In the same way, control characters are useless in a filename.
Additionally, to ensure a filename will be usable in most systems, and workaround system deficiencies, most users self-censor to use only the ASCII subset of characters, for file exchange.
Then the filename is generally composed of a sequence of few words.
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