19 Mar
2005
19 Mar
'05
4:06 p.m.
David Roundy wrote:
That's not true, there could be many filesystems, each of which uses a different encoding for the filenames. In the case of removable media, this scenario isn't even unlikely.
I agree - I can quite easily see the situation occuring where a student (say from japan) brings in a zip-disk or USB key formatted with a japanese filename encoding, that I need to read on my computer (with a UK locale). Also can different windows have different encodings? I might have a web browser (written in haskell?) running and have windows with several different encodings open at the same time, whist saving things on filesystems with differing encodings. Keean.