[SG16-Unicode] P1689: Encoding of filenames for interchange

Tom Honermann tom at honermann.net
Fri Sep 6 22:21:42 CEST 2019


On 9/6/19 4:09 PM, Tony V E wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:52 PM Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org 
> <mailto:thiago at macieira.org>> wrote:
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>     > Are there systems where filenames *that developers use* can't be
>     found via
>     > UTF8?
>
>     The problem is what happens when the locale isn't UTF-8, which is
>     common
>     enough when LC_ALL=C was set in the environment.
>
>
> And how common is that (besides you :-)

It is relatively common for me too.  I sometimes use it in scripts to 
maintain consistent output across systems with different locale settings.

Tom.

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