[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #731: what to do with filenames that are illegal on some systems

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#731: what to do with filenames that are illegal on some systems
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     Reporter:  zooko          |       Owner:                                          
         Type:  defect         |      Status:  new                                     
     Priority:  major          |   Milestone:  eventually                              
    Component:  code-dirnodes  |     Version:  1.4.1                                   
   Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  forward-compatibility i18n unicode names
Launchpad Bug:                 |  
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Comment (by zooko):

 (copying some comments that I wrote over on #1072...)

 It is worth considering the five possible Requirements in [http://tahoe-
 lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-May/001670.html this] message. With our
 current unicode support as of Tahoe-LAFS v1.7.0 we have achieved
 Requirement 1 (unicode), Requirement 2 (faithful if unicode). We have not
 achieved Requirement 3 (no file left behind), Requirement 4 (faithful
 bytes if not unicide), or Requirement 5 (no loss of information).

 Nowadays I am pretty skeptical of the value of Requirement 4.

 After I wrote that message I subsequently realized that a good behavior
 would be that if you load an ill-encoded filename into Tahoe-LAFS then its
 representation looks identical to or similar to the representation of that
 file when you view it with Nautilus, GNU ls, or whatever other tools would
 have the same problem with ill-encoded filenames. I think this should be
 added as Requirement 6 (familiar gibberish): "If you copy an ill-encoded
 filename into Tahoe-LAFS, its filename looks identical to or similar to
 what you see when you view it with other tools (e.g. Nautilus, GNU ls,
 etc.)".

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