[Drizzle-discuss] UTF-8/File Systems

[Martin Pool]

On 19 February 2010 11:22, Tim Penhey <tim at penhey.net> wrote:
> Does Bazaar have a known issue with UTF-8 filenames?

If you search for bugs tagged 'unicode' you may find some.

The main problem is on mac os x where the os 'helpfully' rewrites
filenames into a normal form.  So mkdir(a) does not guarantee that a
exists, only that something with a name representing the same
characters as a exists.

The other thing people tend to hit is that bzr insists filenames be
valid in the OS filesystem encoding: if it's declared to be utf-8 then
the names must actually be utf-8.

If they want to file or vote for a bug please do.

>
> Should I chase for more info?
>
> Tim
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stewart Smith <stewart at flamingspork.com>
> To: Brian Aker <brian at tangent.org>, drizzle-discuss Discuss <drizzle-discuss at lists.launchpad.net>
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:39:29 +1100
> Subject: Re: [Drizzle-discuss] UTF-8/File Systems
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:44:16 -0800, Brian Aker <brian at tangent.org> wrote:
>> Is it just Solaris that we have left that has issues with UTF-8
>> filenames? Has anyone found a work around for this?
>
> Apart from not using Solaris? :)
>
> IIRC the main issues were around something in the stark r.e. BZR and
> utf8 file names (bzr/python would core/backtrace) and something around
> some of the standard Solaris tools?
>
> --
> Stewart Smith
>
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