On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:17:51AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 21:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you volunteering to write patches for every program in Debian, and > > maintain them (since the upstream author probably won't be interested > > in this Debian-only scheme)? > > No, but I am volunteering to write some patches for some programs. I > think we might be able to get a fair number of upstreams to go along > with it. > > > >Note again that GNOME programs and the like are already creating UTF-8 > > >filenames, because they work completely in UTF-8 internally. > > > > Which is considered a mistake by many. > > Now, this is interesting. I had thought that the general consensus in > the free software community at large was that UTF-8 is the only sane > charset for filenames, and to not attempt complete support for filenames > in the locale charset. At least this is quite obviously the position > taken by GNOME. Do you have any suitable references for projects which > take a different appproach?
I think this ought to be a reminder that taking a Debian-specific approach to this and reckoning that we can probably "get a fair number of upstreams to go along with it" is a mistake. If there isn't a widely-accepted standard, we will just create a mess. Are the LSB interested in working on this? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
