Is this a Nautilus bug?
Dick Davies
rasputnik at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 11:40:38 UTC 2005
On 09/08/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:17, Dick Davies wrote:
> > How is that going to work ? for textfiles, for example.
> > Are you talking about some extra attributes in the filesystem?
> >
> > Have a look around the ArsTechnica OSX articles to see how many ulcers
> > this gave Apple.
>
> I'm well aware of the previous issues with it, and with all the programs and
> practices that will have to change on Linux to accomodate it. Nonetheless, |
> I believe it's inevitable. Everyone used 8.3 filenames in the past just to
> be compatible with MS, even though OSes like AmigaOS could handle something
> 255 characters in a filename. Windows finally bit the bullet and modernised,
> and now it's hard to find 8.3 filenames.
I know that, but as I said, how is it going to work?
I'd be interested in the mechanisms involved, but the only sane place
I can see for such data is in the fs alongside the file itself (as opposed to
in an external registry of some kind, which I don't think you were proposing).
My point was that apple have spent over a decade trying to support a Good Idea,
and (as the ArsTechnica series explains) are now running away from the
whole idea.
> Text files now have encodings to deal with anyway: is your text being saved in
> ISO-8859-1, or UTF-8? What happens to that Chinese translation file for your
> latest software, when uploaded to a central SVN repository that is running on
> a system with a different encoding? What happens when people download to
> still other encodings?
Any filesystem based metadata you had painstakingly attached to the
file falls off,
of course. That's the trouble.
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