Re: UTF-8 and filenames

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On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:25:00 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.
> 
> From the koji dev:
> 
> [why utf8?] because otherwise you can't really do anything sane with the data.  
> If it's a mix of utf-8, iso-8859-1, WIN-1259, etc. you have no way of knowing 
> how to display it.
> 

g_filename_display_name() or equivalent

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