Is this a Nautilus bug?

Dick Davies rasputnik at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 11:42:53 UTC 2005


On 09/08/05, Dick Davies <rasputnik at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

Incidentally, subversion repos have 'mime-type' properties you can
attach to a file
to identify it. Which is a lot saner than most filesystems :)




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