Replying to myself :( On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 18:51 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:44 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > Okay, so people missed my point. > > > > The point is, if its a tool that doesn't *have* to care about encodings, > > then it should not care about encodings. If its not something that > > performs stuff like alphabetical sorting or case insensitive comparison, > > then it should just accept and pass on the filename as a bag of bits, > > not caring what they mean. > > > > For example, for a long time rsync wouldn't allow you to specify files > > and directories with spaces in the name on the command line, no matter > > how hard you tried to escape or quote it. It would interpret the space > > as a filename seperator. This finally got fixed at some point though. :) Except that rsync may run on windows or mac OS X as well, and this reintroduce the need for rsync to be able to understand what are the bits so that it can translate names to UTF-16 ... > > This also applies to people not properly quoting variables in shell > > scripts... :( > > This is much more clearer and I agree 101% I still agree, it is just that the number of apps that can really avoid caring are less than what most people may think without careful consideration. 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
