Bazaar-NG traffic #2

[David Allouche]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 17:56 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> So is there a real need to control files with non-unicode names?
> 
> Certainly we could save the name in a different format, some sort of
> base64 encoding, with some sort of opening character which would
> indicate that this filename should be treated as a byte stream.
> 
> But is it worth the effort? I certainly think it should be something
> that should be handled when the time comes, rather than having to have
> it right now.

Certainly, there's no compelling reason right now.

I was just chiming in so you fine guys can prevent the "all file names
are unicode" assumption from getting too deeply ingrained thorough the
code base.

Unchecked assumptions tend to do that to your code, and one day you turn
around and find out you have no pants.

-- 
                                                            -- ddaa
Who said it was a pants-free company?
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