Request for feedback - filesystem name encoding
- From: tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:26:13 +1000
e2 v.0.1 has a build-time option FILES_UTF8ONLY, which determines whether
various character conversion function are performed on file paths and names. If
your filesystem uses utf-8 encoding, or ascii (which is compatible), then it is
faster not to bother with conversions to/from utf-8, which is used internally
by glib and e2.
I'm exploring choice of filesystem encoding at run-time, instead of at
build-time. Checking for utf-8 encoding can be done via locale data, but ascii
is not so easy. Many character codings e.g the ISO-8859 series include ascii
characters, as well as others.
I'd appreciate some info on how people are using encodings.
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?
Do you or does anyone you know use one of the english locales but use non-ascii
chars (> 0x7f) in any file path or name?
Regards
Tom
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