Hello, I want to bring up something that is causing a lot of confusion, and is generating a lot of bugs on OS X.
What is the relationship between path names and file.encoding? Or, maybe more correctly, _why_ is there some relationship between path names and file.encoding? On OS X filenames are ALWAYS in UTF-8, so the current locale should never come into play. I was about to launch into a discussion (rant) about our use of nl_langinfo(CODESET) for file.encoding, but the more I look into it, I don't think that's the problem, though you can also make a case that all text files on OS X are UTF-8 by default as well. I'm wondering if this has something to do with sun.jnu.encoding being set to the same value as file.encoding. -- Scott K. ---------------------------------------- Scott Kovatch [email protected] Santa Clara/Pleasanton, CA
