From: Peter Krefting Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:51:59 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200903022221.10254.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> 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. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/