On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: >> I don't think you want those conversion semantics for name. I do think >> we want the value space for names across different systems to be >> equivalent, which if we support zip basically means bytes. > > I don't really understand the suggestion of using a ByteString for > File.name. Can you explain how that wouldn't break > https://zewt.org/~glenn/picker.html, if the user picks a file named > "漢字.txt"?
ByteString doesn't work. A byte sequence might. If the platform does file names in Unicode it would be converted to bytes using utf-8. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
