Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy
At 10:29 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
Right. Did the people on that list come up with any general plan for
how GNU/Linux vendors should transition?
Not anything written up that I know of. Debian-i18n has a large cross
membership, which was part of the reason this should be on debian-i18n.
Are you saying that programs should attempt to convert filenames back
into the user's locale encoding in the actual filesystem, or just that
they should recode them for output?
Console programs should not recode them period, except possibly for
annoying stuff (newlines in names and the like). Locale-dependent
GUI programs should probably do the same. GNOME and KDE may
save them as UTF-8, but that's questionable behavior; arguably, if you
want to use GNOME and KDE you should be using a UTF-8 locale, which
would solve the inconsistency.
David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
(starner@okstate.edu may be disappearing soon - dvdeug@email.ro will work,
but is not suitable for high-volume traffic.)
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