Re: UTF-8 and filenames

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jkeating wrote:

> 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.

At worst, a tool can do what "ls -b" does: quoting.  At best, it can
allow a user to specify the character set/encoding for
directories/file names.

- FChE

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