On 25 June 2014 17:17, Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> wrote:
Prompted by the introduction of non-ASCII into comments, I checked how zic handles a... Zone America/San_José ...line and discovered that, at least on the test system, it seems to do a right thing.
Should zic permit non-ASCII characters in zone names? In time zone abbreviations?
I think that non-ASCII should, for now, be kept out of things that turn into file names at some point. Browsers, email clients, and editors have pretty caught up with UTF-8 by now, but file managers are, at least in some cases, still ‘getting there’, and may not be able to handle files containing non-UTF-8 characters properly, especially on Windows systems if the character is not present in the system code page. (So a ‘ø’ would be a little bit OK on a Western European Windows but a ‘ř’ would not, while on a Central European Windows the opposite might be true.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>