> From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:58:43 +0200 > Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, > bug-gnu-ut...@gnu.org, > q24...@gmail.com, > bk...@gnu.org > > > Doesn't the same problem exist with the file's data itself? > > No, there is normally no problem with the contents of the files, because users > have learned to use file formats that are independent of locale.
Text files are always in some encoding, so I doubt that this was really true. > But when uudecode has created files with garbled names on the receiver's disk, > there is no program which will magically fix it. Obviously, Emacs can. > > IMO, it's not uuencode's problem to solve. The correspondents need to > > solve it "by some other means" (TM), for file data as for its name. > > No, communication that matches users' reasonable expectations does not > work like this. What, email is no longer an option?
