| 8 Jun 2025 |
 emily | see https://docs.rs/camino/latest/camino/ for a perspective on this as applied to file paths | 12:58:00 |
| emily | anyway, nix eval nixpkgs#é and nix eval nixpkgs#'"é"' both behave bizarrely (they interpret nixpkgs as a path for some reason), so I suspect ASCII is the only reliable thing | 12:59:00 |
 pveierland | I agree, it would be way easier to just do a possibly lossy conversion of all attrpaths and paths to UTF8, and it would probably result in fewer bugs overall + less code and specialized parsers etc | 13:50:15 |
| pveierland | Just trying to avoid losing any necessary representational ability | 13:51:09 |
| pveierland | Then again, if a tool like git was rebuilt today maybe it would just insist UTF8 everywhere | 13:51:36 |
| pveierland | I guess the issue for tools such as nix and git is that they need to work with such a broad set of environments so it might not be possible to make that assumption yet | 13:53:54 |
