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Mark Overmeer
Date:
December 8, 2008 12:19
Subject:
Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems
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20081208201925.GB13359@earth.overmeer.net
* Aristotle Pagaltzis (pagaltzis@gmx.de) [081208 19:16]:
> * Mark Overmeer <solutions@overmeer.net> [2008-12-07 14:20]:
> > So why are you all so hessitating in making each other's life
> > easier? There is no 100% solution, but 0% is even worse!
> 
> It looks like Python 3000 just tried that.
> People are not happy about it:
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/OsListdirProblem

I thought we were having a serious discussion.  We all know that
considering all names as Unicode is a stupid presumption.

It seems that some bright minds got stuck in a deep recursion about
codesets in file- and directory names.  A pitty that we do not
focus on the general concept of OS abstraction (knowing that some
problems are only partially solvable (on the moment)).
-- 
               MarkOv

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