Unicode support for non-unicode locales

[Teemu Torma]

On Monday 08 October 2007, Shun-ichi GOTO wrote:
> Subversion can handle better by holding filename as UTF-8 and it is
> very useful for us. We can checkout the Japanese file names on both
> UNIX (EUC-JP or UTF-8) and Windows (Shift_JIS), and also on UTF-8
> platforms which is not Japanese locale.

I have had problems with subversion because it converts filenames but 
not files.  Not with Japanese, just utf-8 versus windows codepages.

If filenames are "unpredictable" it is impossible to write makefiles to 
use them, or the files should be converted the same way.  It is not 
just make, if you are doing software there must be some references to 
filenames somewhere to build and install it.

My opinion is ether for all, both filenames and file contents, or 
nothing approach.  The subversion way is wrong IMHO.

Teemu