> Why not pretend, for the purposes of creating new files, that the
> "codepage-dependent-codeset" is UCS-2 too?  I.e. require userland to
> always supply new filenames in UCS-2?

Since it makes the filesystem unusable from Windows.
Note that only one codepage-dependent-codeset can be used per
system on Windows 9x. (not per file-system, but all filesystems on
that system.)
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