On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:26 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm thinking of writing a draft guideline for the packaging committee to > mandate all filenames be in utf-8. Theoretically, I think this is the > right thing to do as : > > 1) UTF8 is the native encoding of our filesystems > 2) UTF8 is what the distro as a whole has migrated to > 3) There's no encoding information stored with the filename so having > filenames in arbitrary encodings is a recipe for disaster. > > Since I am not an expert in i18n issues I'm posting for some feedback > here first. What do people think? Is this the right thing to do? Are > there some prominent examples of where this is wrong? Absolutely, we MUST be consistent. >From a Samba POV for example we can certainly cope with different charsets, but 1 at a time, there is NO way for samba to successfully present files to other hosts if there are files with mixed chrasets. And consistency in a distro is what everybody expects, I think it make absolutely no sense to permit anything but utf8 in today packages.\ Simo. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
