Re: gnome-velocity packages now incoming
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:18, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:20:20 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
>
> > Quoting the GTK+-2.2 release announcement:
> > :The assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on the
> > :filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale; The
> > :GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation depends
> > :on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.
>
> *headscratch* I agree that UTF-8 locales are a good idea (that's why I'm
> using UTF-8 exclusively), but breaking existing standards at will looks
> like a strange policy to me. As a toolkit developer, you simply don't know
> where the filenames will be stored and how they will be treated/converted
> on the way (maybe it's an NFS or SMB export?)
The only sane assumption is that it is UTF-8. If you have files which
break this assumption, they should be fixed.
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Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
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