Re: [Gnu-arch-users] i18n filenames vs. escaping

[Christian Thäter]

> 1) The ideal is that someone wants to help work on the vu_ translation
>    module and that the escaping code assumes UTF-8 from day 1.
> 
> 2) Acceptable, I suppose, is that the escaping code retains the
>    hard-coded 7-bit limitation.  This will mean more work (to fix
>    escaping) when UTF-8 filename support is added later and also means
>    that the escaping code doesn't give us "extended character set
>    filenames for free".

the escaping is modular and supports utf-8 almost, there is a user defined 
hook-function for a "is_printable_cnt" which needs to be adjusted thats all.

I think i do a cleanup and just make the engine available tomorrow.

        Christian