Trash Can Question

David Faure faure at kde.org
Wed Aug 5 06:04:34 PDT 2009


On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Ozan Türkyılmaz wrote:
> hey,
> 
> which character encoding is getting used in trash info files? there
> should be info about it in the spesification in my opinion.

The same encoding as the file system.
The filename is copied "as is" into the info file.


In practice I would recommend using utf8 everywhere and getting rid
of the whole "filesystem encoding" mess in the first place.

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