On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Shawn Willden wrote: > This has the downside of assuming that files will be retrieved by a > system with the same encoding as the system that stored them. > That's a reaonable assumption, IMO, for a backup tool like mine, or > 'tahoe backup' Not so much for a general-purpose DFS, I suppose.
Yeah, I don't like the idea of a file appearing fine on one person's computer, but having a garbled name or even failing to appear at all on someone else's. So if Tahoe really can't figure out the encoding of a string, it might be better to reject it and ask the user to configure an explicit encoding somehow instead of to try the "pass the opaque bytes along" trick. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
