[Scummvm-devel] Using non-ascii characters in our source, and in filenames

[Max Horn]

Am 20.03.2006 um 07:06 schrieb Travis Howell:

> From: "Max Horn" <max at quendi.de>
>> The second issue is much harder to resolve. We could for example   
>> demand that all our backends provide file system operations that  
>> use  a particular encoding (e.g. UTF-8). But that's probably not  
>> realistic anyway. Right now, we managed fine, because paths/file  
>> names were  either pure ASCII, or were fixed to a single computer,  
>> so which  encoding was used was totally irrelevant.
>> Hence the alternative to requiring a fixed encoding is to ignore  
>> the matter, and simply let Töff-Töff remain unsupported (at least,  
>> not supported w/o manual work) on systems that use a different  
>> encoding.
>
> Would be best to just ignore the matter, as people on systems using  
> difference encoding, can easily rename the demo's files. It  
> definately isn't worth the required back ends changes for ports,  
> just for this one demo.

Agreed. But I came up with another potential "solution", too: We can  
simply add the name multiple times, with different encodings. I.e.  
right now we have a Win Latin and a UTF-8 encoded version in the list.



Cheers,
Max