Re: filename encoding (was: ISO-2022)

[Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> Handling locale-encodings without knowing the locale leads to
> problems which I noticed in the last mail, i.e., the 2nd byte
> of multibyte character can hit '/' ...
> Or, you think locale-encodings should be used but multibyte
> encodings cannot be used?  It is unfair.

Life is unfair.  Not all encodings are created equal.  Some are well
designed (UTF-8) and some are badly designed.

It is not unreasonable to put limits on the problem we are trying to
solve, and specifically, to say that we will limit our attention to
well-designed encodings.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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