On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:25:35PM +0000, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
The point is that different things are natively handled in different formats under different OSes, e.g.
Posix NT Win9x
pathnames bytes UTF-16 locale command line bytes UTF-16 locale file contents bytes bytes bytes pipes/sockets bytes bytes bytes
actually, Posix systems should be the following
pathnames locale UTF-16 locale command line locale UTF-16 locale file contents * bytes bytes pipes/sockets * bytes bytes
Although the Posix interface is in terms of bytes, the strings should always be interpreted via the locale specified in $LANG or $LC_CTYPE also, for file contents and pipes/sockets, if you are passing text, and in the absence of some overriding standard or protocol, you should be using the encoding specified in the locale too. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈