On 7/17/07, Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:14:25PM +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> Reading [1], I conclude that applications should pass UTF-8 to BSD
> functions such as stat() at all times. This suggests to me that
> apr_filepath_encoding() should return APR_FILEPATH_ENCODING_UTF8.
>
> Yet, looking at the sources, on any Unixy system, it returns
> APR_FILEPATH_ENCODING_LOCALE.
>
> Is this an oversight, or am I missing something else?
This is deliberate; on Unix the character set used for filenames is
dictated by the locale settings (e.g. LC_CTYPE), by convention. There
is certainly no Unix standard which dictates that all filenames must be
UTF-8-encoded Unicode, so APR cannot enforce that.
I didn't mean to imply this should apply to any unix, but the Darwin
docs do seem to say that this is the standard on Darwin.
Doesn't APR adhere to what's standard on Windows in its Windows
incarnation? By analogy, shouldn't it do the same for Darwin?
I'm not suggesting this should apply to any other Unix than Darwin and
the docstring for apr_filepath_encoding allows it to return other
values than _LOCALE.
bye,
Erik.
