Darren Kenny wrote:
> Takao-san,
> 
> How does this effect the behaviour?

It makes the filename with the current encoding.
My understanding is Fedora 8 also has the same setting.

> 
> As I understood it - regardless of locale in GNOME - filename were encoded in
> the UTF-8 locale - at least this is what Alex Larsson (of GNOME VFS fame) 
> said.
> 
> If that is correct, how does this change alter that?

I'm not sure which description you indicate however I guess it explains the 
internal encoding instead of the input/output encodings.

I recognize this kind of topics are introduced in ARC but I was not sure if I 
should comment it.
The main problem is the users write the filenames with the current encoding, 
e.g. mkdir foo-multibytes, then if applications output UTF-8 only, the file 
path includes multi encoded file paths, it causes SEGV in many applications.
Then our basical policy is to output the filenames with the current encodings 
especially for local path "file:///" so that applications work fine.

We also defines G_BROKEN_FILENAMES for none UTF-8 filenames.
Currently none UTF-8 locales are supported so we need to avoid critical 
problems likes crashes.

All I can say is the saved encoding should be UTF-8 likes .desktop, .scheme 
files.

Does it make sense?

I'ld also like to see if we have actual problems in case we put 
filename_encoding=locale.

Thanks,
fujiwara

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Darren.
> 
> Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
> 
>>I'ld like to change the default parameter to work on none UTF-8 locales.
>>
> 
> 



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