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Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:37:38 +0200

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +0100
> 
> I propose that we bite the bullet, assume a fixed external system
> encoding of utf-8 for such strings, and recode accordingly.

I'd rather assume that usernames are encoded in the locale's encoding,
not necessarily in UTF-8.




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