Anthony J. Bentley said: > > I haven't used Apple OSses since around 10.4, but Mac OS X was doing a > > thing where certain well-known directory names were aliased according to > > the current locale. For instance, the user's "music" directory was shown > > as 「音楽」 when the locale was set to ja_JP.UTF-8. > > IMO this is totally crazy behavior and unrelated to the Unicode issue.
GNOME does this too. It goes even further - proposes to rename XDG directories if locale changes. Most amusingly, if you happen run GNOME and Firefox with English locale and then switch to non-English locale, your GNOME will rename XDG directories to new locale defaults, and Firefox will re-create "~/Desktop". I rarely have to deal with systems with non-English locales, but each and every time I have to, I get terrified with the changes since the last time. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
