Re: Folder tree does not display iso-8859-1 characters properly

[Martin Uddén <nanook lysator liu se>]

On 2003-04-02 13:14, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2003.04.01 22:43, Martin Uddén wrote:
>> When my maildir contains folders/mailboxes having high-byte 
>> iso-8859-1 characters in them, the folder tree pane's pango-calls 
>> complain that I try to pass illegal UTF-8 to it. The names are 
>> truncated after the first high-byte character.

> 
> I have heard the opinion that the filenames are supposed to be in 
> UTF-8, otherwise you would see different glyphs depending on your 
> locale. Nautilus and the file open/save dialog would have the same 
> problems: you would get messages similar to following:
> 
> Gtk-Message: The filename "a\366df" couldn't be converted to UTF-8 
> (try setting the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES): Invalid 
> byte sequence in conversion input
> 
> Or have I completely misunderstood you?

Ah. Maybe I should ask someone why my terminal emulator/shell can't 
display UTF-8 correctly =) ?

Seriously, doesn't the whole file-system have to be renamed then, along 
with mucho headache?

I understand that applications like evolution use UTF-8 in eg its 
folder names, but isn't this a Bad Thing, if the file system is in 
iso-8859-* ?

Could you point me to some info re UTF-8 vs. iso in linux file systems?

			// Martin