Re: Are metainfo files (.torrent) text files ?
"skybuckflying" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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> Do not confuse this with the dicussion about the code page /
encoding
> used to represent filenames, that's a different issue. And no,
there is
> no "Standard" here either -- Bram has said in no uncertain terms
that
> all filenames must contain regular 7-bit ascii and anyone who wants
to
> trafer a file with localized names should just suck it. So clients
that
> use cp1252 or UTF-8 have just made up extensions to deal with it,
but
> there is no official way to handle this.
I think UTF8 fits perfectly well with Bram's requirement since the
lower 128 characters of UTF8 are compatible with ASCII =D
Bye,
Skybuck.
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