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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trou
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?) |
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Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:56:24 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
> I'm tempted to think that we should enforce utf-8 for log-files, so as
> to standardize the format.
Right, me too. In patch logs and archives, logs should just be
UTF-8.
The other thing is that I think filenames should _also_ just be UTF-8
and what I'm puzzling over concerning that is if there's an
incremental path to that.
> The committer machine should know how to turn the local encoding
> into utf-8, and the getter machine should know how to turn utf-8
> into the local encoding. But I'm not sure if we should assume
> that the getter machine can turn the committer's local encoding
> into utf-8.
I think we can assume with an escape clause. Most people should agree
that Unicode is ample. Many people will want to use a character set
with a lossy roundtrip to Unicode. But as long as arch is tolerant
of private-use codepoints, this issue can reasonably be "not our problem".
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Robert Collins, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Tom Lord, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Christian Thäter, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Tom Lord, 2004/02/03
- [Gnu-arch-users] spaces in filenames, first iteration, Christian Thäter, 2004/02/07
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Johannes Berg, 2004/02/03
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Johannes Berg, 2004/02/03
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Increasing the filename space (Or: begging for trouble?), Aaron Bentley, 2004/02/03