Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

måndag 02 mars 2009 21:52:41 skrev Peter Krefting [off-list ref]:

Robin Rosenberg:

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I'd be almost happy with a solution that works when people are interacting 
using the subset that is convertible between the character sets in use.

You mean like the "invariant" character set? :-) Using Unicode internally 
(in whatever encoding) is nice, the problem is when you have to interact 
with the world around you.

Not sure what that is. I mean that in a local nordic, setting people can use iso-8859-1|15/windows-1252/UTF-8 for their needs be means of converting the characters as-needed without loss, with very few practial restrictions. 

For a larger setting that won't do, but then the need is typically less since people tend to use ASCII only, or you jump to all unicode.

Just because I use UTF-8 doesn't mean I use start using more characters in practice.

-- robin