From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2009-09-01T20:32:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25245] Re: [Bug #2026] String encodings are not supported by most of IO on Linux

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Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/9/1 Yui NARUSE <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:
>> Issue #2026 has been updated by Yui NARUSE.
>>
>>
>> Current Ruby thinks the filesystem encoding of Unix is binary.
>> Because our initial research shows users of Unix expect it.
>>
>> As you know, Windows is UTF-16LE/Locale (see also win32-unicode-test),=

>> and Mac OS X is UTF-8.
>> If some OSs or distributions imply their filesystem encoding,
>> we can follow it.
>=20
> Any distribution that sets locale (other than C) does.

That's just a default and users can override it.  Even if a distro sets d=
efault
locate to UTF-8, a user can still generate a filename which is invalid as=
 a
UTF-8 sequence.  Ruby must be able to handle that kind of filename.  Henc=
e the
choice of binary encoding.

On the other hand AFAIK you cannot create a UTF16-invalid filename on Win=
dows.


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