Re: Stupid quoting...

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 13:14:45 +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

söndag 24 juni 2007 skrev Jan Hudec:

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IMHO it should be the default even for email format. Most projects that use
non-ascii filenames probably have all members using same locale. And for
such group, it will just work. Also usually the file names, content and
commit messages will usually be in the same (though project-specific)
encoding, so if charset in content-type is set to that, people with 

different

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locale able to represent the same characters will still see the names
correctly. For other people, the MUA will probably print some escape anyway
(it will not screw up the terminal -- it usually knows what it can safely
pass to it).

I can't talk about "most" here, only local conditions, i.e. northern Europe 
where both the legacy ISO encodings are very common with a steady increase in 
UTF-8 usage, in the Linux community. People using OSS in windows almost 
exclusively get the windows-1252 (for most practical purposes the same as 
ISO-8859-1).

Even a *very* small set of random people you will wind up with people having 
different locales.

A small set of *random* people will likely have different locales. But
a project that would use non-ascii filenames would probably use some
particular language and thus be run by people that all speak that language --
which means they are not random at all and probably will use the same locale.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec [off-list ref]