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Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy



Hello,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:23:51AM -0600, starner@okstate.edu wrote:
> Not acceptable. Filenames are and must be in the locale charset. There is
> no other sane option [...]
No, this does not work, too.  Imagine two scenarios:

1) A multiuser machine, with users using different charsets.
   Who decides which one is "local"?

2) The sysamin/user changes the charset, e.g. from iso-8859-1
   to iso-8859-15 to get the Euro character.
   How should the filenames stay in the local charset when
   this changes?  Would there be some automatical conversion?

A non-broken solution will have to convert charsets somewhere
between the filesystem level and output to the user's terminal.
(And no, I don't know an easy way to do this :-( )

Jochen
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