On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
"The name of the file as a UTF8-encoded string." A DOMString is not UTF-8-encoded. I think this should just say "Returns the filename". It is not more complicated than that as far as I can tell.
There are some filesystems on (mostly legacy) Unix-like systems where filenames are stored in some other encoding than UTF-8, and in some cases the encoding is not even known. For example, in Japan there exist NFS fileservers where the filenames are encoded in Shift-JIS. In cases like that it's a little more complicated than "Return the filename" but it's probably ok to just leave it to the UA or the operating system to figure out how to deal. Interpreting it as UTF-8 is likely to be a poor choice in such cases.
- Maciej
