Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What filename characters does Mac OS X support?

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Alastair Rankine <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:56:53 +1000
> 
> Ben, I don't know what you mean by "translate [unicode characters] to  
> ascii"? This just isn't possible, but perhaps you mean translate  
> these characters to UTF-8 (ie char * in C)? In which case you should  
> look at the "encode" python string methods, and/or the libiconv C  
> library.

Well I was just hoping to remain ignorant of unicode.  Regardless of
what the unicode descriptions of the files are, if the files can be
processed with standard unix functions like open(char *, int) then
their filenames get represented as a collection of bytes (which I
improperly called ascii).

So I was hoping to deal with filenames just as byte arrays, and not
worry what they represent and if they are unicode or whatever.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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