Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:38:43 +0200 |
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Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland@downeast.net> writes:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 07:34 pm, Lukasz Stelmach wrote: >> That's why UTF-8 is suggested. UTF-8 has been developed to "fool" the >> software that need not to be aware of unicodeness of the text it manages >> to handle it without any hickups *and* to store in the text information >> about multibyte characters.What characters exactly you do mean? NULL? >> There is no NULL byte in any UTF-8 string except the one which >> terminates it. > > Bingo. Only the operating system itself and software displaying > filenames needs to understand Unicode; the file system > implementation itself just knows its a string of bytes and nothing > else.
Not even the OS needs to know what the bytes mean. Only applications displaying the names have reason to interpret the bytes they are composed of in any specific manner.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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