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Re: Filename encoding
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Filename encoding |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:55:51 +0200 |
> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:47:45 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> > All guile needs to know is what encoding the person creating the
> > filesystem has adopted in naming files and which it needs to map to.
>
> Right, but how does it know that? The closest thing we have to a
> standard way to tell programs what encoding to use is via the locale. I
> believe that's what most existing internationalized programs do, anyway.
You can take the defaults from the locale, but you need to allow the
user or application to change those defaults.
> It seems to me that each system must standardize on a single encoding
> for all filenames on that system, and the locale encoding is the defacto
> standard way of telling programs what that is.
But I can, for example, mount a file system from a different locale
which uses different encoding. No need to prevent me from using file
names on that file system.
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