Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Different users of the same system may have perfectly valid reasons to
> use different locale settings, and thus different filename encodings.
> Forcing one thing or another is just a useless restriction, and
> probably not POSIX compliant.
I agree.
Although some people (like glib2 developers) try to say that filenames should
be in UTF-8, this doesn't work, just because the "ls" command assumes that
they are in the locale charset. Please fix glibc and/or coreutils and all
other programs first.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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