Re: filename encodings and conversion failure

2022-12-30 Thread David Huang
On 12/30/2022 4:40 PM, Karl Berry wrote: Well my point is that this would not work everywhere. How can "store as bytes" not work (be implementable?) everywhere? I'm missing something. I seem to remember an earlier message in the thread mentioning Windows... where filenames are natively

Re: filename encodings and conversion failure

2022-12-30 Thread Mark Phippard
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 5:41 PM Karl Berry wrote: > > Well my point is that this would not work everywhere. > > How can "store as bytes" not work (be implementable?) everywhere? I'm > missing something. 18 years ago when Paul Burba and I were working on porting SVN to run on OS/400 this feat

Re: filename encodings and conversion failure

2022-12-30 Thread Karl Berry
Well my point is that this would not work everywhere. How can "store as bytes" not work (be implementable?) everywhere? I'm missing something. When stored/returned as bytes, certainly a filename might look like garbage when presented to the user, depending on their locale, what the filename