On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:05 PM, bulia byak wrote:
On 9/29/09, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
When a user upgrades a system, it keeps the filename encoding. We have several core Inkscape developers who have this issue.
If you refer to me, then I have just installed a shiny new UTF-8 Ubuntu on a new machine after my old one died. So, until a couple weeks ago, indeed I had KOI8-R as my filename encoding, but not anymore.
Yes, you were generally taken as the pathological worst-case, since your filesystem also had files encoded in a few encodings. Was CP-1251 in there at some point?
But I've seen others. At least some of my boxen have been upgraded, and one common place to see "interesting" file system encodings has been Japan. There were many encodings used over there, and I've personally hit support issues with people having other than UTF-8 filesystems on boxes running modern distros that list "UTF-8" as their default filesystem.
The good news, though, is that as long as we do the right thing it will work 100% for everyone, including those with UTF-8 filesystems. It's minor work to do the right thing, and actually more work to do it wrong.