[haiku-development] Re: Localization of file names?

François Revol wrote:

> I've been forced to use OSX for some months now, and I'm getting really
> pissed off by all those translated names. It just doesn't sound right.
>
> You drag-n-drop a file from ~/Vidéos/ to Terminal and it becomes ~/
> Movies/...
>
> Even in some GUI apps the right path is displayed, so the confusion is
> not only for Terminal users.

Stefano Ceccherini wrote:

> Indeed. Since Vista / Server 2003, Microsoft does the same, and it's
> simply insane.
> Windows explorer shows the translated name, but trying to save a file
> (i.e. from notepad) directly writing the full path (i.e.:
> c:\programmi\blah) results in: "path not found", since the real path
> is the untranslated name.
> And worse, having an english windows 2003 server access remotely an
> Italian windows xp shows the folder translated in english, even if on
> disk they are stored in italian. Baaah!

Does this mean you guys do not want translated file names at all, or
that it should somehow be done better? I guess it should be possible
to turn it off, but should application names then still be translated
or be treated like any other file name? Discuss. :-)

-Truls

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