Re: Nautilus and locales

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:51, Bellegarde Cédric wrote:
> 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?

Presumably, using whatever input method you use to type those characters
anywhere else.  I routinely use non-ASCII characters in file names.  If
you don't want non-ASCII characters in your file names, don't put them
there.  It's really very simple.

As for which encoding should be used for file names, mixing character
encodings is a very bad idea.  If I create files whose file names are in
UTF-8, and another user on my system creates files whose file names are
in ISO-8859-15, then there's no way that any single user can properly
read all the file names on the system.

All of the file names on a system should really be in one character
encoding.  And UTF-8 is really the only sane choice for that.

--
Shaun