Re: Re: bencoding 0:
Mike Ravkine <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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You've missed the most obvious solution.. embed the utf-8 filename
information into the regular .torrent file as an extra field. I think
this is what some apps have started to do..
--kRYPT
skybuckflying wrote:
>
>1. The whole torrent is encoded in utf8. This would still be
>compatible with old clients as long as all information encoded in it
>is in ASCII.
>
>If some parts are not in ASCII then the old clients might start
>seeing weird characters in the filenames. Depending on the client
>this might or might not be a problem. If the client simply replaces
>invalid characters for it's system then it could still work ;)
>
>2. Double torrents. The utf8 torrent is included at the end of the
>torrent.
>
>3. New torrent extension .torrentutf8
>
>
>
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