From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@xs4all.nl)
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 21:58:34 CST
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> writes:
>
>> Whatever you guys decide, please let's not have any proposals to
>> "improve" UTF-8, or invent a mutant form of UTF-8, by giving it a way
>> to map these arbitrary byte sequences bijectively while
>> simultaneously retaining the existing properties of UTF-8.
>
> So how do you propose to map filenames to strings on Unix?
>
> I'm asking from the point of view of a runtime of a language which
> represents strings as sequences of code points. It has no power to
> change how Unix works, nor how people name their files.
How about quoted-printable?
"Quoted-printable encoding is one method used for mapping arbitary bytes
into sequences of ASCII characters. This encoding is reversible, meaning the
original bytes and hence the non-ASCII characters they represent can be
recovered."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
Chris
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