UTF-8 and filenames

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:59 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The tools may have to be paranoïd but I'm surprised people question the
> fact we should use our default encoding in our own filename. Seems a
> no-brainer to me.
> 

I don't question that, and it is a very sane thing to put this as a
recommendation somewhere in the packaging guidelines. Still, it would be
bad if the tools fell over in the presence of a non-utf8 filename. There
is just no good reason for that limitation.