On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:18, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:20:20 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > Quoting the GTK+-2.2 release announcement: > > :The assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on the > > :filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale; The > > :GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation depends > > :on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea. > > *headscratch* I agree that UTF-8 locales are a good idea (that's why I'm > using UTF-8 exclusively), but breaking existing standards at will looks > like a strange policy to me. As a toolkit developer, you simply don't know > where the filenames will be stored and how they will be treated/converted > on the way (maybe it's an NFS or SMB export?)
The only sane assumption is that it is UTF-8. If you have files which break this assumption, they should be fixed. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: http://me.woot.net
