Re: gnome-velocity packages now incoming
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:56, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:30:27 +0200, Joe Drew wrote:
>
> > The only sane assumption is that it is UTF-8. If you have files which
> > break this assumption, they should be fixed.
>
> I'm thinking of file_names_.
Yes, s/files/filenames/ in the above.
> You can probably avoid the whole issue only
> by using UTF-8 locales exclusively. Otherwise, you'll always have
> corrupted filenames in either GTK or non-GTK apps.
Non-GTK apps are broken if they don't use UTF-8 for filenames; as
asserted above, it is the only sane choice.
Note that this doesn't mean that they are displayed in UTF-8, only that
the names are stored in UTF-8 on disk. Once you've got a known encoding
you can easily convert to the user's local encoding.
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Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
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