Re: uuencode: multi-bytes char in remote file name contains bytes >0x80

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:43:55 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, 張叁 <address@hidden>,
>       Bruce Korb <address@hidden>
> 
> Referring to
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2011-07/msg00000.html>:
> 
> An obvious problem with the patch is that it considers a file name to be a
> byte sequence. But different users may work in different locales, with
> different encodings.

Doesn't the same problem exist with the file's data itself?  And yet
we are not bothered by that, and boldly go ahead and encode the data.

IMO, it's not uuencode's problem to solve.  The correspondents need to
solve it "by some other means" (TM), for file data as for its name.