On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:22, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > It looks to me like at this point almost everyone agrees with the > > content of my proposal in #99933, and we are discussing implementation > > details. Agreed? > > I do STRONGLY DISAGREE with > > ... Programs included in Debian packages > should, when creating new files, encode their names in > UTF-8 by default. > > We shouldn't start this before all/most programs can handle > the generated file names.
If I drop this from my proposal, will you support the rest of it then? I should note however that many programs are already creating file names in UTF-8 today; like pretty much any program which uses GTK+ 2 for instance (including all of GNOME).
