Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.

[Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com>]

"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru> writes:

> 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

IMHO, the glib developers are clueless, and the GNOME crew even more
so.  I remember when the gtk file selection dialog stopped displaying
files with "bad" names, unless I set some wacky undocumented
environment variable first.

> "ls" command assumes that they are in the locale charset. Please fix
> glibc and/or coreutils and all other programs first.

I use utf-8 exclusively for my filenames (the few that are not 7-bit
ascii).  Forcing others who use the system to do the same would cause
them a lot of trouble, as they must transfer files to and from Windows
machines that use anything but utf-8.  The result is that some
filenames are in utf-8, some iso-8859-1, and some euc-kr.  As long as
these stay in each users' home directory, it all works quite well,
though.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
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