Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?)

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Johannes Berg" <address@hidden>

    >> It means that patch logs, the output of `inventory', etc. will have a
    >> peculiar encoding form -- users are free to put UTF-8 into headers or
    >> body content that they write, but filenames will look odd.  That
    >> problem, however, can be fixed by a thin-layer of transcoding on code
    >> that spews these things for human consumption.

    > Does this mean that all control stuff/filenames tla puts into logs and
    > everywhere else will be 7-bit clean, and just look weird & escaped?

It should.

-t