Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: unicode | From | Jan Vroonhof <> | Date | 14 May 1998 16:35:12 +0200 |
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Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> writes:
> I am talking about what filenames are equal and what are not.
and I was saying that your definition, although technically conventient, looks very ugly. The conceptual view users have is that filenames are sequences of glyphs, not bytes. If you want to implement that definition it is really usefull to have a unique representation for each glyph.
> It's assumed that files and filenames shouldn't be re-encoded > automatically.
If you are not reencoding then why take the trouble of passing charset labels around? Secondly it is very very difficult to make sure things do not get reencoded mostly because you cannot be sure what is a filename and what is not.
Jan
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