is utf-8 the standard filename encoding?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 21 22:25:21 UTC 2011


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:28:06AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:18:11PM -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 09:42 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > It's possible I'm mistaken about the default behavior on Ubuntu
> > > Server, though - someone please correct me if I'm wrong.  Maybe
> > > this is another reason why we need to get the C.UTF-8 locale going
> > > everywhere.
> 
> > It is definitely not using C.UTF-8 everywhere.
> 
> No, I'm saying we *need* to get a C.UTF-8 locale.  We currently don't
> have one for installed systems.

We do as of Ubuntu 11.04:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609306

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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