On 2008 Sep 5, at 19:36, Aaron Denney wrote:
On 2008-08-30, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2008 Aug 30, at 4:22, Aaron Denney wrote:
On 2008-08-27, Henrik Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And there are also potential issues with not every legal module
name
being a legal file name across all possible file systems.
I find this unconvincing. Broken file systems need to be fixed.
Language people trying to impose constraints on filesystems is the
tail wagging the dog.
I think it's safe to now declare that one that doesn't support unicode
in some fashion, even if only a userland convention of using UTF-8, is
indeed less usable, and hence broken.
It's not just UTF-8; Windows filesystems restrict a number of special
characters (I don't think any are significant for module naming, but I
can't swear to it either off the top of my head). Is this broken? If
so, what do you think the chances are of getting it fixed?
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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