colecmac at protonmail.com writes: > The issue is that admins are not the only ones who create folders and files. > Non-technical people will as well, and a bug like this will be very confusing. > Everything will look right, but it just won't work. However, I doubt this will > occur very often, and it's an acceptable tradeoff to supporting Unicode. It's arguably worse than that; consider the case where your filesystem doesn't store filenames in UTF-8 ? notably Windows stores them in UCS2. If you're treating filenames as Unicode strings and not byte arrays, and your language provides good abstractions for that, you're okay, but the upshot is that both the client and the server really do need to be Unicode aware. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, | | even though we do not love it. -- Dogen |
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