Re: Problems with accents in filenames

On 2003-11-24 02:10:08 +0100, Branko ??ibej wrote:
> O.K., I'll concede that. I should have said,
> "... the exact encoding of the characters in a file name usually depends
> on the current locale."

Where did you see that?

> My point is that *it is not*. Most Unix applicaitons do *not* send
> UTF-8 encoded file names to the filesystem, they use whatever the
> current locale prescribes.

This is plainly wrong. For instance, the filename may come from an
XML file, where UTF-8 encoding may be (and is often) used. In this
case, applications will typically send the UTF-8 encoded filename.
In short, you have 3 kinds of applications:
1) those that will save UTF-8 filenames (based on their knowledge);
2) those that won't do any conversion and will send the bytes as
they received them (letting all the responsibility concerning the
encoding to the user);
3) Subversion, which does a conversion and breaks everything.

> >It is an inconsistency, therefore a Subversion bug (even if Subversion
> >chooses a local encoding -- for instance, in this case, the encoding
> >could be written somewhere in the .svn directory, and there would be
> >no bug).
> >
> No, that would be an even worse bug. Imagine what happens if your shell
> runs in UTF-8 and Subversion decides its working copy is in Shift-JIS.

Nothing wrong would happen (at least, this wouldn't be worse than now).

> GNOME is not the filesystem. ROX-Filer is not the filesystem.
> Subversion isn't a GNOME application.

But the user may create files in the working copy with ROX-Filer.
This is the important point.

> Let me put it simply. You're having problems because you insist on
> using several different, incompatible locales to manipulate the same
> files.

If Subversion didn't do any conversion, I wouldn't have any problem.

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