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Mark
Adrian Havill wrote:
> Has anyone noticed the inconsistencies in the Manifest file specification
> regarding Unicode, Unicode in filenames, and ASCII?
>
> Example from <URL:http://java.sun.com/security/usingJavakey.html>:
> > The manifest is an ascii file, defined by the spec at
> > <URL:http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/jar/manifest.html>
>
> Jump to the spec, and we see:
> > The encoding of non-ASCII characters in filenames (if they are
> > supported) is defined by the archive format [PKWARE's ZIP]"
>
> Then later on in the same document:
> > No line may be longer than 72 bytes (not characters), in its
> > UTF8-encoded form
>
> and the BNFish spec in the same document has the rule:
> > otherchar: any Unicode character except NUL, CR and LF
>
> ===
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) The word "ASCII" referring to the manifest seems to be a technical
> documentation error
>
> 2) Can PKWARE's ZIP format, which is used by JAR, support Unicode filenames (I
> assume the answer is "Yes via UTF-8"? I can't find any documentation on this.
> If this were so, JAR provides an answer to the problem of mapping non-ASCII
> class filenames on systems that don't support Unicode filenames.
>
> 3) Do any actual implementations support this yet? When I force Unicode into a
> MANIFEST file, it breaks both IE and Netscape and Hotjava and Appletviewer.
>
> 4) What ever happened to the proposed method of encoding Unicode package/class
> names on non-Unicode filesystems via the method proposed in 7.2.1 (pg. 117) of
> the Java Specification? ("@" + 4 hex characters for non ASCII)
>
> 5) Will JavaSoft and Microsoft ever modify the VMs for Windows 95 and NT to take
> advantage of the Unicode filename support in NTFS (I believe the long filenames
> in 95 are set-up to handle Unicode but is not currently implemented)?
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