unicode filenames

[Andrew Dalke]

David Eppstein wrote:
> Under Mac OS X, the shell displays text (e.g. from cat, or from ls 
> without the -q option) as utf-8 by default, and the Finder (gui file 
> browser) uses utf-8 for accented characters in file names.  So I infer 
> that the correct interpretation of filenames under my OS is utf-8.

Nautilus and Konquerer both interpret files under Linux as Latin-1.
So does Konsole and xterm.  And Mozilla's "File Open" dialog.

I think I would rather they use UTF-8.

					Andrew
					dalke at dalkescientific.com