Re: UTF-8 and filenames

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On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:25 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:59 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > The tools may have to be paranoïd but I'm surprised people question the
> > fact we should use our default encoding in our own filename. Seems a
> > no-brainer to me.
> > 
> 
> I don't question that, and it is a very sane thing to put this as a
> recommendation somewhere in the packaging guidelines. Still, it would be
> bad if the tools fell over in the presence of a non-utf8 filename. There
> is just no good reason for that limitation. 

What do you propose the tool to do?
If you don't known the encoding, and knowing it is fundamental for the
tool to function, there is not much you can do except avoid wrong file
names by policy.
It should probably report a graceful error, and obviously not crash, but
beyond this?

Simo.

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