Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:12:36PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>  However, if these programs display
> them to the user on a tty, it will be necessary to convert them to the
> user's locale encoding

Hmm.  Remember the far more common case of a program that takes a
filename on the command line and then tries to open it.  The user
would have typed it in the local encoding, so it needs conversion.
On the other hand, if the program was invoked by another program
then the filename is likely to already be in UTF-8.

I guess this conversion should be done by the user's shell, and all
filename arguments on the command line should be encoded in UTF-8.
Umm, except that the shell doesn't know which arguments are filenames.
How should this be done?

Richard Braakman