Re: stty utf8

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
>      perl -e 'for (glob "*") { rename $_, "ņi-".$_ or die "rename: $!\n"; }'
> 
>    (NB: The prefix string is N WITH CEDILLA followed by "i-").
>    (Hint: it mangles perfectly fine non-ASCII file names).
>
>    Perl has no perfect behaviour to offer, because what should that
>    behaviour be if readdir() might return a non-UTF-8 byte sequence
>    as a name?

I've had someone point out that the perl script mangles non-UTF-8
filenames, and there is no correct behaviour for that case.

In fact the _real_ bug is that it mangles perfectly fine UTF-8 filenames.

It's a Perl quirk, but the behaviour is like that for compatibility
with non-UTF-8 filesystems.  I wanted to show how just using UTF-8 for
filenames isn't _yet_ as straightforward as it should be.

-- Jamie