- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:34:23 +1000
- To: "Tex Texin" <tex@yahoo-inc.com>
- Cc: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-international@w3.org, public-appformats@w3.org
On Nov 30, 2007 10:58 PM, Tex Texin <tex@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Bjoern, > > If we are discussing reasonable, reasonable software does not use CP437 as an encoding, for at least the last 10 years. ;-) > > FWIW, a reasonable software system wouldn't allow drawing characters in a name, but DOS did, and so many users did use smiley faces, card suits, and the like in their file names. Generated filenames often used them. > > If we were talking about ancient zip files, then we might have to tolerate such names. But as we are discussing new specs, instead of supporting all possible zip files, why not specify the use of zip files, with the constraint that filenames be stored as utf-8, and make the non-utf-8 names unacceptable. Perhaps with modern tools, this isn't a problem. One of our design principles [1] for the Widget spec is that authors should be able to create widgets just using the zipping tools that have been pre-packaged with an OS. Because the introduction of allowing UTF-8 names in Zip is a very recent addition to that spec, we might not see implementations for a long time. > I would like to preserve the ability of authors to use non-ASCII file and pathnames. > We can still suggest that non-ASCII characters may cause problems. Done. > Separately, but related, a problem with filenames is case-sensitivity. It is not uncommon to have problems installing a zip file, authored on a case-sensitive system, onto a case-insensitive file system, due to collisions and possible overwrites being detected. > It might be good to warn authors to avoid this problem as well. The widget spec currently mandates that a widget engine treat file and folder names as case insensitive. I have still to spec how to deal with filename collisions (ie. halt, ignore, or override? However, that probably a subject of a different thread. If anyone has any comments regarding that, please send them to the WAF list:)). Kind regards, Marcos [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-reqs/ -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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