On Sunday 03 May 2009 09:12:56 am Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> On May 3, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 May 2009 08:01:45 pm Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> >> The best thing to do for Tahoe is likely to define valid UTF-8 as the
> >> encoding for all Tahoe file names and to raise an error when people
> >> try to stick anything else in there.
>
> Actually I didn't write that -- one of my interlocutors from python-
> dev did.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you did. Just didn't pay attention to how my
mail client quoted.
> I like this idea. Our current scheme involves preserving enough
> information in the metadata that a tool like this could later be useful.
That's a good point. Preserving the byte-for-byte data allows later
determination of the proper encoding.
Shawn.
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