Re: AW: tlug: Japanese filenames (was: EUC & SJIS)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 TBaetzle@example.com wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> you asked:
> > Moreover, why would a
> > person who couldn't read Japanese want to download a file that was in
> > Japanese anyway?
> > 
> How about a learner who just wants to get program up and running?
> Being interested in a language doesn't necessarily mean that one's
> also fluent in it.  

precisely.

I'd say that it's okay to use non-7bit filenames as long as the following
two criteria can be met:

	1.  You're SURE that nobody who doesn't understand your language
will be needing/wanting the files
	2.  You're SURE that nobody with a computer that's not set up to
decode the language in question will ever need/want the files.

I would think that not many files would satisfy both of those, though.

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