On 09/21/2010 10:01 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Ari Jolma wrote:
The idea of this RFC as I understand it is to build a layer into
GDAL, which would take care of conversions between utf-8 and utf-16
(Windows end) transparently, thus making it similar to the current
case of utf-8 filesystem in unix. Everything should work fine as it
is now, but I'll add encode (to utf8 by default) to be on the safe side.
In the case of unix with non utf8 filesystem determining the filename
encoding is left for the user. The encoding is by default utf8 but
can be changed.
Ari,
I'm a bit uncertain about where we stand on Perl. Is it true that
currently
the filenames are just treated as "plain strings" in Perl
"Plain strings" in Perl are in Perl's internal format that can handle
unicode text.
and that these
strings have no obvious characterset or encoding associated with
them? If
so I'm not sure that "encoding to utf-8 by default" will necessarily make
sense if they are already in utf-8. If you "encode to utf-8", is it
assumed
the encoding is being done from whatever the locale charset is?
Basically Perl should be told what the encoding of text is when it is
given to it and when text is wanted from Perl it should be told the
encoding. If GDAL functions assume and produce text in a known format,
all is well, as we can tell that to Perl.
Best regards,
Ari
Best regards,
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