UTF-8 and filenames

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:25:00 Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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.

From the koji dev:

[why utf8?] because otherwise you can't really do anything sane with the data.  
If it's a mix of utf-8, iso-8859-1, WIN-1259, etc. you have no way of knowing 
how to display it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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