Fwd: Re: [Drizzle-discuss] UTF-8/File Systems

[John Arbash Meinel]

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> 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?
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> Apart from not using Solaris? :)
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> 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?
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'stark' ?

There can be problems in bzr if your filesystem claims to be "UTF-8" and
then you put an iso-8859-1 file in there. But if you are actually
consistent about the filesystem encoding, it shouldn't be a problem.

As for Solaris... We've had problems with BSD not setting filesystem
encoding properly, but if we get an encoding of 'None' we now fall back
to "UTF-8". So really it depends what:

python -c "import sys; print sys.getfilesystemencoding()"

says. If that is UTF-8, then there shouldn't be a problem.

John
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