- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:48:55 +0100
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:46 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> "The name of the file as a UTF8-encoded string." A DOMString is not >> UTF-8-encoded. I think this should just say "Returns the filename". >> It is not more complicated than that as far as I can tell. > > There are some filesystems on (mostly legacy) Unix-like systems where > filenames are stored in some other encoding than UTF-8, and in some > cases the encoding is not even known. For example, in Japan there > exist NFS fileservers where the filenames are encoded in Shift-JIS. In > cases like that it's a little more complicated than "Return the > filename" but it's probably ok to just leave it to the UA or the > operating system to figure out how to deal. Interpreting it as UTF-8 > is likely to be a poor choice in such cases. Also, that would you mean you'd have to decode it with UTF-8 as encoding, not encode. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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