Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 14:45:43 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 18:20, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
>> Yes, that's how it works, but if I want ext or reiser or whatever to
>> have NLS, I'll have to make them support it (btw, if I do so, wont it
>> be rejected?). I want to move the NLS one level upper so the
>> filesystem imlementations won't have to worry about it any more. I
>> don't have much kernel experience, and none in the fs area, so I can't
>> explain it any better, but hope you get the idea.
>
> An ext3fs is always utf-8. People might have chosen to put other
> encodings on it but thats "not our fault" ;)

I was of the impression that most filesystems (ext3 included) treated
file names as a sequence of bytes, and didn't care about encoding.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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