Re: Invalid UTF-8

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:39 -0700, William Spitzak wrote:
> Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> > As for your use case (file names etc.) - representing stuff that _isn't_
> > Unicode but is _almost_ Unicode - there are other workarounds as I
> > described in the previous posts.
> 
> The problem with the "workarounds" is that they either force all Unix 
> filenames to be interpreted as ISO-8859-1, or they make it impossible 
> for the user to paste the output of a directory listing into a yaml file.

Well... _of course_ you can't paste a *non*-Unicode string into a
Unicode file!

> I think I am being overly theoretical in my complaints, rather than 
> listing exactly the use case I want, which is what I describe above.
> 
> Putting Unix into a non-Unicode ghetto is not an answer.

Right - dragging UNIX (kicking and screaming) into the Unicode world
is :-)

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki


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