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Re: gnome-velocity packages now incoming



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?)

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