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

Tony V E tvaneerd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 22:12:01 CEST 2019


On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:52 PM Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
>
Is this a case of "the program is running under a different encoding than
the filename was written with"?
And should that be our problem?  This problem exists regardless of whatever
we do?  We aren't fixing your terminal, for example.

-- 
Be seeing you,
Tony
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