[tahoe-dev] Fwd: [Python-Dev] PEP 383 and GUI libraries

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On May 3, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:

> On Saturday 02 May 2009 08:01:45 pm Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
>> The best thing to do for Tahoe is likely to define valid UTF-8 as the
>> encoding for all Tahoe file names and to raise an error when people
>> try to stick anything else in there.

Actually I didn't write that -- one of my interlocutors from python- 
dev did.

To be clear, my current plan is like this:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/534#comment:66

> I suppose one way to handle it in interactive mode is try try all  
> available
> decoders and show the user a list of the results from all that  
> succeeded,
> then let them pick the one that looks right, assuming they know,  
> and assuming
> the current font has the glyphs required to display the correct  
> decoding.

I like this idea.  Our current scheme involves preserving enough  
information in the metadata that a tool like this could later be useful.

Regards,

Zooko