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> I would love to have a setting that just turns off all of Unicode permanently. That'd be way too extreme but it would have been totally possible to have a fi

> I would love to have a setting that just turns off all of Unicode permanently. That'd be way too extreme but it would have been totally possible to have a filesystem configurable so that it'd enforce ASCII only filenames and ASCII only domain names. FWIW I enforce ASCII only domain names on my system (I prevent resolving any domain name that has Unicode chars) and live is fine and well. And I'd have zero issue with ASCII-only filenames. And localization/internationalization (l10n/i18n) can go where it should: inside resource files etc.

vladvasiliu 3y ago
I'd argue most computer users, if considering the whole world, would like to use their native language for their file names. In some cases, you can get close enough by just cutting away random symbols. Think é -> e. Sure, you may lose some nuance, but it's close enough. I wonder how well this works for languages which don't use a latin-based script, and how approachable the conversion is for a "regular person".
- Tainnor 3y ago
  German speakers would for sure riot if they couldn't use umlauts in file names. This discussion is so incredibly US-centric.
- cesarb 3y ago
  > Sure, you may lose some nuance, but it's close enough. Not always. For instance, "coco" means coconut, while "cocô" (notice the circumflex, which corresponds to a change on which syllabe has the stress) means fecal matter. That's not just "some nuance".
  - jgeada 3y ago
    I think you mean cocó (Portuguese/Brazilian for shit, mostly used by little kids; adults use a different word) I love it when people are incensed on my behalf on things I actually don't care about.
    - cesarb 3y ago
      > I think you mean cocó (Portuguese/Brazilian for shit, mostly used by little kids; adults use a different word) No, the word does have a circumflex, not an acute accent, and it's also used by adults (mostly in the expression "fazer cocô", which means to defecate). But, of course, that might be something regional to where I live (a large metropolitan area on the southeast region of Brazil).

vladvasiliu 3y ago

I'd argue most computer users, if considering the whole world, would like to use their native language for their file names. In some cases, you can get close enough by just cutting away random symbols. Think é -> e. Sure, you may lose some nuance, but it's close enough. I wonder how well this works for languages which don't use a latin-based script, and how approachable the conversion is for a "regular person".

Tainnor 3y ago
German speakers would for sure riot if they couldn't use umlauts in file names. This discussion is so incredibly US-centric.
cesarb 3y ago
> Sure, you may lose some nuance, but it's close enough. Not always. For instance, "coco" means coconut, while "cocô" (notice the circumflex, which corresponds to a change on which syllabe has the stress) means fecal matter. That's not just "some nuance".
- jgeada 3y ago
  I think you mean cocó (Portuguese/Brazilian for shit, mostly used by little kids; adults use a different word) I love it when people are incensed on my behalf on things I actually don't care about.
  - cesarb 3y ago
    > I think you mean cocó (Portuguese/Brazilian for shit, mostly used by little kids; adults use a different word) No, the word does have a circumflex, not an acute accent, and it's also used by adults (mostly in the expression "fazer cocô", which means to defecate). But, of course, that might be something regional to where I live (a large metropolitan area on the southeast region of Brazil).