On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:51 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:07 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > I like the simplicity of "Every filename must be encoded as UTF-8." But > > if we just leave it at that some people in "ASCII speaking countries" > > are sure to ask, "So how do I convert ASCII to UTF-8?" Maybe something > > like: > > Well, UTF-8 is a full superset of ASCII; so simply stating that "Every > filename must be encoded as UTF-8" would mean that any ASCII-only > filenames are inherently acceptable. We could add a clarification, of > course, such as something to the effect of: "Please note that UTF-8 is a > superset of ASCII, thus ASCII-only filenames are also acceptable." > Except that Nicolas's arguments about people in ISO-8859-1 speaking countries assuming ASCII includes accented Roman characters would apply to that note as well. Really, I don't think there's any way to clarify this without defining what ASCII is. In a few (and by few, I mean five to ten :-) years everyone will know what UTF-8 is and we won't have to worry about people who think that ASCII has to be converted into UTF-8. -Toshio
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