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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version...
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Jan Hudec |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version... |
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Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:23:07 +0100 |
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 16:02:46 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:32:38 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > > Next: the escaped version still only accepts 7bit ascii [...]
> >
> > I understand how hard it is to lift this. It would be extremely nice
> > if it could accept high characters. I mean \(U+0100) and higher, since
> > I have ISO-8859-2 encoding here. It, of course requires two things:
> >
> > 1) Proper charset conversion to/from charset detected from locale.
> > 2) Some sane fallback what to do when a character can't be
> > converted.
> >
> > The second thing it the hardest part of it. I can imagine:
> > a) It won't work with such filenames, that is you won't be able to
> > checkout weird things if your locale does not support it
> > (workaround -- LC_CTYPE=<something>.UTF-8 tla ...)
> > b) It will not convert escapes that can't be converted. This would
> > be very nice, but it disallows valid unicode escape sequences
> > in filenames -- file '\(U+E1)' would be the same as file 'รก'.
> > Perhaps someone will get a better idea.
>
> It is prepared to use utf-8 in future, but you got it right, there is
> still alot to do to make tla unicode aware. Until then it is limited to
> 7bit ascii. Just go ahead and code the stuff or wait for it (or fund
> some development on that issue).
Sure it is. I briefely looked at the code. I just wanted more people to
think of it before I or anybody else starts to code it, so the result is
designed sanely.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Tom Lord, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Tom Lord, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] Escaping utilities (Was: Re: Trying out the new escaping version...), Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Tom Lord, 2004/03/18
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Tom Lord, 2004/03/18
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version..., Parker, Ron, 2004/03/18