On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Ambrose LI <ambrose...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-04-25 12:34 GMT-04:00 Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov>: > > I am totally euro-centric, > > But Shift-JIS is not one-byte; it's two-byte (unless you allow only > half-width characters and nothing else). :-) bad example then -- are their other non-euro-centric one byte per char encodings worth worrying about? I have no clue :-) > This I don't understand. As far as I can tell non-Western-European > filenames are not unusual. If filenames are a reason, even if you're > euro-centric (think Eastern Europe, say) I don't see how latin1 is a > good choice. > right -- this is the age of Unicode -- Unicode is the correct choice. But many of us have data in old files that are not proper Unicode -- and that includes filenames. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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