Re: tlug: Encoding troubles

["Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" <jens-ulrik.petersen@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>     Klaus> 3. define UTF-8 to be the standard filename encoding at the
>     Klaus> application level. Add SJIS<->UTF-8 ranslation to HFS and
>     Klaus> modify Samba to support UTF-8 for local filenames
>     Klaus> (per-share setting not needed).
> 
> This is the obviously correct way to go.  It also give extensibility
> to UTF-32/UCS-4 character sets, with no extra work (you can put in the
> tests for size now in case you want to restrict it).  You won't have
> to change again in your life time, unless SETI succeeds (thanks to
> Steve Baur for pointing out this important caveat ;-).

What's SETI?

Jens
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