[TYPO3-dev] Chinese (utf-8) in filelist

[Gideon So]

Hi Martin,

Martin Kutschker wrote:

> 
> The problem is that TYPO3 relies on filenames in ASCII only. I think it has
> to do with (old) limitations on filesystems and URLs.
> 
> The problem could be solved if we accept UTF-8 for filenames. BUT there are
> ASCII checks and transformations in the whole Core. And the other parts of
> the code rely on ASCII. So simply allowing UTF-8 for filenames won't do any
> good even if you hacked (easy) the file upload routines in the BE.
> 
  Thanks for your explanations. It's a pity that seems no chance to
upload files with Chinese names.
> Has Chinese anything like Japanese Hiragana or Katakana? TYPO3 could be
> taught to transliterate it to ASCII.
> 
> I found only Pi-nyi-n, which is perhaps a bit awkward to read after
> ASCII-ifation (the tones normally represented with accents will become
> numbers). But OTOH it is an ISO standard.
> 
> Anyway, even if you used Pinyin with accents to name your file, you have to
> modifify the transliteration table, because currently accents are simply
> stripped.
> 
  I see. But I don't used to Pinyin.
> Masi

Gideon