Vincent Lefevre wrote:
However, I'd expect many will just assume that the user wants filenames
to be encoded according to the current locale.
If everybody follows this convention, there is no problem, apart from
user errors during locale configuration.
You're asking the user, and even all users on the system where
the files are shared, to stick with a single locale. This is not
acceptable, this is contrary to POSIX requirements, and is also
a problem for SSH (where the user needs to use the same charset
on both sides). Under these conditions, the only possibility is
to encode the filenames in UTF-8 anyway. So, why not enforcing
that?
But don't forget that different platforms may use different UTF-8
encodings for the same filename. Mac OS X encodes accented characters in
filenames in a different way than Linux.
- Michael
