Re: filename encoding (was: ISO-2022)

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS]

Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Robert Brady writes:
> > GTK+ 2.0 will be taking the policy, that all filenames are in UTF-8
> 
> This is a mistake. Users use terminals and 'ls' to see and manipulate
> their files. The file name, as passed from/to the kernel, must be in
> the user's locale encoding.

Why can't ls or the C library convert to and from UTF-8?

Anyway, how would the kernel know what encoding to use? You probably
wouldn't want to introduce any new mechanisms for that, as before too
long everyone will be using UTF-8 anyway.

I think I prefer it when the kernel just deals in strings of char and
doesn't get involved with character encodings.

Edmund
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