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

[Shawn Willden]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 09:12:56 am Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you did.  Just didn't pay attention to how my 
mail client quoted.

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

That's a good point.  Preserving the byte-for-byte data allows later 
determination of the proper encoding.

	Shawn.