Bruno Haible wrote on 2001-02-01 15:14 UTC:
> Robert Brady writes:
> > GTK+ 2.0 will be taking the policy, that all filenames are in UTF-8
>
> This is a mistake.
I hope that by the end of 2001, it starts to become widely recommended
practice. Not having a single encoding for filenames is a mistake. Other
file systems like NTFS and VFAT also have chosen a single fixed
character encoding, which simplified matters significantly for many
users. Perhaps as time goes, the e2fs documentation should eventually be
updated to recommend UTF-8, at least as the preferred encoding for file
names (and plain text file content).
So if GTK+ 2.0 forces me to use UTF-8 in filenames, then I will
immediately restrict myself to ASCII filenames (most users do that
already anyway), and then slowly start to use UTF-8 as this becomes more
and more feasible with other GUI packages.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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