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Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.

From
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Mar 3, 2009, 05:51 UTC
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Robin Rosenberg:
> Not sure what that is.

"Invariant" is defined in an old RFC as the common subset of several ASCII-like and ASCII-based encodings. This was back before the MIME days, IIANM.

> 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.

Indeed. The trick is to have the storage (in this case, Git and it's tree objects) storing the file name data in a commonly agreed-upon way. Then it is simple to convert at the end-points.

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

Most people do not, no. But using a Unicode encoding means that they at least have the option. Sometimes, having to mangle stuff down to ASCII is a pain.

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  1. Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.Peter Krefting, Mar 2, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtMar 2, 2009
  3. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2009
  5. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  6. Johannes SixtMar 2, 2009
  7. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  8. Robin RosenbergMar 2, 2009
  9. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  10. Robin RosenbergMar 2, 2009
  11. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  12. Dmitry PotapovMar 3, 2009
  13. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
  14. Robin RosenbergMar 7, 2009
  15. Peter KreftingMar 2, 2009
  16. Thomas RastMar 2, 2009
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  21. Robin RosenbergMar 3, 2009
  22. Dmitry PotapovMar 3, 2009
  23. Peter KreftingMar 3, 2009
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  25. Peter KreftingMar 4, 2009
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