Thanks much for your query. I'm applying this change and please let me check if we have any problems.
Darren Kenny wrote: > Takao-san, > > Thanks for your explanation, you are certainly better experienced in this area > than I am, if you feel that this is the correct way for Solaris then I will > defer to you. > > I'm quite surprised to find that Fedora 8 has this when Alex works for RedHat, > but what do I know ;) > > Thanks, > > Darren. > > Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: > >>Darren Kenny wrote: >> >>>Takao-san, >>> >>>How does this effect the behaviour? >> >>It makes the filename with the current encoding. >>My understanding is Fedora 8 also has the same setting. >> >> >>>As I understood it - regardless of locale in GNOME - filename were encoded in >>>the UTF-8 locale - at least this is what Alex Larsson (of GNOME VFS fame) >>>said. >>> >>>If that is correct, how does this change alter that? >> >>I'm not sure which description you indicate however I guess it explains the >>internal encoding instead of the input/output encodings. >> >>I recognize this kind of topics are introduced in ARC but I was not sure if I >>should comment it. >>The main problem is the users write the filenames with the current encoding, >>e.g. mkdir foo-multibytes, then if applications output UTF-8 only, the file >>path includes multi encoded file paths, it causes SEGV in many applications. >>Then our basical policy is to output the filenames with the current encodings >>especially for local path "file:///" so that applications work fine. >> >>We also defines G_BROKEN_FILENAMES for none UTF-8 filenames. >>Currently none UTF-8 locales are supported so we need to avoid critical >>problems likes crashes. >> >>All I can say is the saved encoding should be UTF-8 likes .desktop, .scheme >>files. >> >>Does it make sense? >> >>I'ld also like to see if we have actual problems in case we put >>filename_encoding=locale. >> >>Thanks, >>fujiwara >> >> >>>Thanks, >>> >>>Darren. >>> >>>Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I'ld like to change the default parameter to work on none UTF-8 locales. >>>> >>> >> >
