On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > So this raises two issues: > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed
Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are in an international environment and we are targetting full localization. > 2) if yes whould we require the filename to be in a correct UTF-8 encoding ? I think it would be good, yes. We have standardized on UTF-8 for almost everything and we should do the same for filenames. Is there no lintian check covering this? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
