Re: JFS default behavior

[Jamie Lokier]

jw schultz wrote:
> Your concrete example is a good one.  Where did that
> filename come from?  It would seem to have come from the
> keyboard via a tty (or simulator) which also had to display
> it.  I'd say this is an argument for the terminal to display
> UTF-8 and convert intput into UTF-8.  That is something that
> seems to be not consistantly done as yet.  Ultimately it
> seems to be a responsiblity of the user interface, whether
> tty or GUI.  Until that happens the shells might be able to
> fill the gap, however poorly.

Many terminals will not ever display UTF-8.  Think: all the serial terminals.

This is why I think "stty utf8" or something along those lines would
be useful.  The terminal itself doesn't have to talk UTF-8; however,
the applications talking with /dev/tty would always see UTF-8.

That seems to solve most of the practical user interface problems of
the command line, in one single clean place.

-- Jamie
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