> I think it would be a useful feature to choose the 
encoding
> of filenames. 

For now filenames are stored "as is" - which is a problem 
for Linux (charsets are defined by filesystem or system-
wide, but is not "sticky" to the filesystem itself). I'll 
have to find a workaround for that, but the problem is not 
easy to solve (chinese filenames on a ISO-859-1 system ?)