On Sep 3, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > 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.
Which in fact is how I think we should do File.name. We'll stick to DOMString, but think it should specify a conversion to a byte sequence using utf-8. And, restrict separators such as "/" and "\". -- A*
