Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

David Kastrup skrev:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +0100
>>>
>>> I propose that we bite the bullet, assume a fixed external system
>>> encoding of utf-8 for such strings, and recode accordingly.
>> I'd rather assume that usernames are encoded in the locale's
>> encoding, not necessarily in UTF-8.
> 
> That assumes that every user operates under the same locale, and that
> this locale agrees with the locale of the system files.  In particular
> on multi-user machines, that is not realistic.

Since users themselves can set their full name, I'd think the user locale 
would be a good choice.

> 
> It might be reasonable to add a new variable to hold the system locale
> which should not depend on the user locale.  However, it is somewhat
> late for this.  Clearly, assuming emacs-mule encoding for the system,
> as it now appears the case, is always wrong.
> 
> For current systems, assuming utf-8 will likely be correct most of the
> time, at least.

UTF-8 is much better than emacs-mule.  If it is not too much work, I'd suggest 
checking if the name is valid UTF-8, and if it isn't, use the user locale.

	Jan D.