Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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.
I agree. The draft no longer says that the name has to be in UTF8.
-- A*
