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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Checking international filenames
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-11-16 14:00:39
Message-ID: 200811161500.48592.thiago () kde ! org
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Michael Leupold wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to allow kwallet users to specify non-ascii filenames for their
> wallets and wondered if using
> QTextCodec::codecForLocale()->canEncode(filename) is the correct way to
> check if a filename can be properly used (of course with additional
> checks for unsupported characters)?
>
>Without doing this check I figured I might end up with "?????" filenames
> if entering eg. cyrillic characters on a non-UTF locale.

All file names are valid. Do not try to verify it.

We do not support KDE on any locale that is not UTF-8. Therefore, anything 
that can be typed, goes.

The problem is only on filesystems with arbitrary limitations, like the 
Windows ones. You'll simply get an error trying to open the file.

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