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  1. Bug #8256
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 8256

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In , Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: Bug#272478: libglib2.0-0: Shouldn't require to set G_FILENAME_ENCODING in non UTF-8 locale

Le lundi 20 septembre 2004 à 20:15 +0200, Laurent Martelli a écrit :

> If a user wants UTF-8 filenames, shouldn't he use an utf-8 locale ?
> And all will be fine for him with a patch like mine. The current
> behavious is completly bogus with a non utf-8 locale since programs
> use the locale's encoding for filenames. Am I missing something ?

Look on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94672 for example:

"We consider locale-dependent filenames to be "broken" because:

  - Multiple users may have different loclale needs, but
    can't share a filesystem if the filenames are locale-dependent.
  - If a single user needs to switch to a different locale
    temporarily, all their filenames get reinterpreted.
  - Tar files with such filenames in them aren't portable.

Etc."

or http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118923

Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher