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Subject: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead  	of SO/UTF-8
From: IWAMURO Motonori <deenheart AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi.

I propose that the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8.

There are three reasons:

1. for the interoperability between Cygwin and various UNIX-like
systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and so on).
   UNIX-like systems treat the filename as 8bit byte array, and many
applications on the systems send or receive filename information
without locale. (mercurial, git, rsync, and so on).

2. UTF-8 is the only encoding that can treat multi languages.

3. Today, the default encoding of modern UNIX-like systems is UTF-8.

Please examine it.

Thanks.
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IWAMURO Motnori <http://vmi.jp/>

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