On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote:
2017-04-25 12:34 GMT-04:00 Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov>:
I am totally euro-centric,
But Shift-JIS is not one-byte; it's two-byte (unless you allow only half-width characters and nothing else). :-)
bad example then -- are their other non-euro-centric one byte per char encodings worth worrying about? I have no clue :-)
This I don't understand. As far as I can tell non-Western-European filenames are not unusual. If filenames are a reason, even if you're euro-centric (think Eastern Europe, say) I don't see how latin1 is a good choice.
right -- this is the age of Unicode -- Unicode is the correct choice. But many of us have data in old files that are not proper Unicode -- and that includes filenames. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov