Re: Nautilus and locales

[Bellegarde Cédric <gnumdk wanadoo fr>]

i think utf8 for filename is a bad idea!
I have created a directory with nautilus
I open a terminal and:

gnumdk cassiope:~/d$ ls
ééééééééé/  toto

How can i do a cd in this directory?

Le mar 24/02/2004 à 18:52, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:05, Kotrla Vitezslav wrote:
> > Yesterday I've been very surprised to found Nautilus renaming files using
> > UTF-8. As my filenames are always ASCII and I never use spaces, I would
> > never realize it myself. My unbiased and "naive" friend, for whom I installed
> > Gnome desktop recently, used some native Czech filenames and I was very
> > surprised in console to see two-byte characters.
> > 
> > System locale is cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2, so I wonder why ever Nautilus uses
> > UTF-8. Please could someone shed some light on this matter?
> > 
> > PS: I even switched system locale to cs_CZ.UTF-8, but nothing has
> > changed namely in gnome-terminal, I still see two byte unreadable
> > characters.
> 
> >From http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.0.0-notes.html:
> 
> * The assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on the
>   filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
>   The GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation
>   depends on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.
> 
>   If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then
>   you may want to set the G_BROKEN_FILENAMES environment variable:
>   
>    G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
>    export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
> 
>   Best integration of GTK+-2.0 with the environment is achieved by 
>   using a UTF-8 locale.
> 
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