Luca Barbato <[email protected]> writes:

> On 04/15/2011 12:45 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>> The idea isn't bad, I'd like to have the opinion of window users.
>> 
>> I think it is a stupid idea, just like Windows in the first place.
>
> Sadly windows is stupid, the idea of converting the name from utf8 to
> utf16 and pass it the the right open variant is sound. Having it as
> separate protocol probably is overkill and could be done directly in the
> normal file protocol.

The problem is that the filename passed in is in some unknown encoding.

>> If an OS refuses to support unicode filenames in a sane way, its
>> users will simply have to accept not having that feature.  End of story.
>
> If the workaround is just 10 lines that could be cleanly compiled w/out
> touching the rest of the code isn't that bad.

People have tried to solve it cleanly before, and failed.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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