Comment 2 for bug 437295

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Martin von Gagern (gagern) wrote :

OK, importing these files is a real problem, as of course bzr itself is unicode-oriented, not byte-oriented, so one has to somehow determine the name of such a file. I guess the real troubles will start if a file was renamed, e.g. from its latin1 encoded from to its utf-8 encoded form. Might well happen during the deverlopment of a project. In that case there would be two different byte strings representing the same unicode string, and encoding would change over time. A really tough situation. I guess for the moment I'll simply assume that file name encoding corresponds to message encoding.