On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 23:05, David Starner wrote: > Not anything written up that I know of. Debian-i18n has a large cross > membership, which was part of the reason this should be on debian-i18n.
Ok, if people want to move this discussion that's fine by me. > >Are you saying that programs should attempt to convert filenames back > >into the user's locale encoding in the actual filesystem, or just that > >they should recode them for output? > > Console programs should not recode them period, except possibly for > annoying stuff (newlines in names and the like). If we're talking about the filenames, then I agree. > Locale-dependent > GUI programs should probably do the same. GNOME and KDE may > save them as UTF-8, but that's questionable behavior; arguably, if you > want to use GNOME and KDE you should be using a UTF-8 locale, which > would solve the inconsistency. What do you expect GNOME programs to do? Since they fully support UTF-8, you can input any Unicode character you want. Also, a program like Evolution may receive a file in mail whose name uses Unicode characters. And a lot of locale charsets (like ISO-8859-1) will not be able to encode the string. The only sane solution is to just use UTF-8 for filenames. But I am curious about your feelings on programs writing data in general to the terminal; you feel they should not never to convert it to the locale's charset, and we should just mandate that people using legacy terminals use that filterm or whatever thing?
