Re: Proposed nsIFile and nsILocalFile Changes - MUST READ

[Doug Turner]

Daniel Veditz wrote:

> Frank Tang wrote:
> > >  Why do we need unicode paths on the nsIFile?
> >
> > File name do contains non ASCII characters. And in general we should use
> > wstring/PRUnichar* for all XPCOM interface for any text which are human
> > readable. We also want to hide the details of what charset are used in
> > the file system from the caller.
>
> While I agree that Unicode is best inside Mozilla (and REQUIRED for
> scriptable interfaces), embedding apps may find native code paths easiest to
> work with. Why force them to convert to Unicode only to have nsLocalFile
> convert them right back?

what about a nsIFileUnicode interface that just has these interfaces on it?  Or
visa vera?