Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The OS has no way of merging your various encodings. If I create a
> directory, and have people from around the world create a file
> in that directory named after themselves in their own character sets,
> what should I see when I invoke:
>
> % ls -l | less
>
> in that directory?
>
> If you wish to share filenames across locales, I suggest you and
> everyone else writing to that directory use an encoding that will work
> across all those locales. The encoding that works well for this on
> Unix systems is UTF8, since it leaves '/' and NULL alone.
The problem with this aproach is that all users need to change their locale
encoding. Some of them may not be able to do so because they need to login into
older systems that do not support UTF-8.
We had less problems if UNICODE was introduced 10 years ealier. Because of
missing encoding support for their countries, people in russia, china, ...
did create own encoding schemes in the 1980s that are still in use.
Jörg
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