From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:21:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.
Message-ID: <200903022221.10254.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903022146510.20047@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>

måndag 02 mars 2009 21:52:41 skrev Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>:
> Robin Rosenberg:
> 
> > I'd be almost happy with a solution that works when people are interacting 
> > using the subset that is convertible between the character sets in use.
> 
> You mean like the "invariant" character set? :-) Using Unicode internally 
> (in whatever encoding) is nice, the problem is when you have to interact 
> with the world around you.

Not sure what that is. I mean that in a local nordic, setting people can use iso-8859-1|15/windows-1252/UTF-8 for their needs be means of converting the characters as-needed without loss, with very few practial restrictions. 

For a larger setting that won't do, but then the need is typically less since people tend to use ASCII only, or you jump to all unicode.

Just because I use UTF-8 doesn't mean I use start using more characters in practice.

-- robin