Re: [AD] [ alleg-Bugs-2380931 ] Deprecation warnings (OS X)

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Dec 2008, at 04:00, Peter Hull wrote:
> I couldn't get it to work on the old one either. nm.

We should maybe file a bug report, though presumably others have  
already done the same. It's rather silly if you can't post patches  
for open bugs on the tracker.
I can see a use for the reverse, only allowing people to report bugs  
if they include a fix as well. :P

> So what about my Unicode question - should I be converting to ascii  
> or utf-8?

Good question. The answer, I guess, depends on what the OS expects  
for filenames, which is a topic that keeps coming up. Without  
thinking about it too much, shouldn't that depend on whatever the  
current locale is?
I never really use characters in filenames that are not in the  
default ASCII set so I'm really the wrong person to have an opinion  
on this. Between the two, I'd pick UTF-8 because it's a strict  
superset of plain ASCII, but that's probably a non-issue.
Worst case: we pick the wrong one and need to fix it later. I guess  
leaving a note on the code that documents this will do for now.

Evert