From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:33:36 GMT
Subject: Re: non-ascii filenames issue
Message-ID: <37fcd2780904061533o73b393b4j1358ea6259fbd33a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904061109330.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:12:35AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> Most Russian programmers I know do not run in a UTF-8 locale.

Actually, on Linux, people gradually switching to UTF-8 from koi8-r,
but on Windows MSCRT does not support UTF-8, so you do have much choice
here but to use Windows-1251. BTW, the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 is going to
have UTF-8 as the default locale. So, IMHO, UTF-8 is the only reasonable
choice for internal file name representation...

Dmitry