Re: Request for feedback - filesystem name encoding

Thanks, Denis
> > 
> > Do you or does anyone you know use a non-english locale (e.g.
> > environment variable LANG or LANGUAGE is not en_*) but only ever use
> > ascii chars (!-~ or 0x21-0x7e) in all file paths and names?
> > 
> 
> I finally decided to use only ascii chars because, for some
> reasons, I had to switch from ISO8859-15 to UTF-8 and back, and I met
> problems with accented characters in some applications. But I think
> all applications should be able to deal transparently with both
> encoding. (if it's possible, what I don't know !)

That's my aim, and I'm looking for a way to do it as fast as possible, i.e. 
without conversion unless necessary.

My current thought is that unless the locale specifies UTF-8 or en_*, or a 
startup-command switch specifies utf-8 or ascii, then coding conversion will 
have to be used because the app. can't decide whether accented-etc chars will 
actually be used (unless it _slowly_ checks each file/path string, no thanks...)

Regards
Tom


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