UTF-8 and filenames
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche at redhat.com
Wed Mar 14 16:16:06 UTC 2007
jkeating wrote:
> 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.
At worst, a tool can do what "ls -b" does: quoting. At best, it can
allow a user to specify the character set/encoding for
directories/file names.
- FChE
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