Re: updates

seth vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <1067235162.30785.31.camel@binkley>
> I would suggest option 3.  Just assume any character > 127 is evil if
> the string isn't UTF-8, and replace it with '?'.  Technically you can do
> better, but it probably isn't worth the time.

The question that Joe raised, correctly, is - what do you do for a file
name, where it may actually matter.

I've already hit this in the fedora core rpms.

What are the standards and rules for this, in general. Should we be
encouraging some sort of policy of 'only utf-8 filenames' or somesuch?

-sv
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