Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> > wrote: >> Unfortunately, even programmers experienced in I18N like Martin, and >> those with intuition-that-has-the-force-of-law<wink> like Guido, >> express deliberate disbelief on this point. They say that filesystem >> names and environment variable values are text, which is true from the >> semantic viewpoint but can't be fully supported by any implementation. > > With all the focus on backup tools and file managers I think we've > lost perspective. They're an important use case, but hardly the > dominant one. > > Please, as a user, if your app is creating new files, do NOT use > bytes! You have no excuse for creating garbage, and garbage doesn't > help the user any. Getting the encoding right, use the unicode APIs, > and don't pass the buck on to everything else. > Uhmmm.... That's good advice but doesn't solve any problems :-(. No matter what I create, the filenames will be bytes when the next person reads them in. If my locale is shift-js and the person I'm sharing the file with uses utf-8 things won't work. Even if my locale is utf-8 (since I come from a European nation) and their locale is utf-16 (because they're from an Asian nation) the Unicode API won't work.
-Toshio
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