Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:28, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:00:19AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Seriously, I didn't mean it that way; I just meant that I think everyone
> > has generally accepted that UTF-8 is the way of the future; we're just
> > debating when, where, and how.
> I want to challenge the "everyone" in your sentence above :-)
>
> I agree that it would be a good idea to store filenames as UTF-8
> in the filesystem. But I (being a part of "everyone") do not
> agree, that we should even try to switch every terminal in the
> world to UTF-8. We do need conversion of file names somewhere
> between the filesystem level and output.
Well, I do agree that conversion should occur. In reality though, not
all programs will be fixed to do this, and not all terminals will be
converted to UTF-8 either. We just want to maximize both in an attempt
to minimize breakage.
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