The problem root lies in the fact in some languages (notably russian)
there is more then one widely used charset. In russian for example
there are koi8-r, iso8859-5, cp866 and the infamous but widely used
ms cp1251.
Once you need to have access to some data with names using the second
half of the ascii table the trouble arises. For example the situation
i have here is that smbd provides the public share and people creates
there some files originating with the cp1251 encoding. Myself having
koi8-r as the system default charset naturally observe crap.
The proposed and seemingly natural solution is to add a possibility
to mount --bind the subtree with a filename charset conversion applied.
regards, Samium Gromoff
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