Re: Patch for unicode in varnames...

[L A Walsh]

George wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 15:59 +0700, Peter & Kelly Passchier wrote:
>   
> > On 05/06/2560 15:52, George wrote:
> >     
> > > there's not a reliable mechanism in place to run a script in a locale
> > > whose character encoding doesn't match that of the script
> > >       
> > From my experience running such scripts is no problem, but correct
> > rendering it might depend on the client/editor.
> >
> >     
> It depends on the source and target encodings. For most pairs of source and 
> target encoding there is some case where reinterpreting a string from the
> source encoding as a string in the target encoding (without proper conversion) 
> will result in an invalid string in the target encoding.
> For instance, if a script were written in ISO-8859-1, many possible sequences 
> involving accented characters would actually be invalid in UTF-8.
---
   Um... I think you are answering a case that is different than
what is stated (i.e. locale being same as used in script).  So no
conversion should take place.

(if you have an issue w/that, talk to George.  :-) )

-linda