Re: UTF-8 and filenames

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On Wednesday 14 March 2007 14:25:00 Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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.

I can imagine a tool that fills a XML file with filenames. If the encoding of 
the XML file is UTF-8, that (hypothetical) tool would have to know the 
encoding of the file names to create a correct XML file.

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Laurent Rineau
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