Re: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> What Linux supported filesystems support UTF-8 filenames?

Filenames, to the kernel, are a sequence of 8-bit things commonly
called "bytes" or "octets", excluding '/' and '\0'.

=> Answer: "All of them". (Or at least ext2/reiser ;-)

> Looks like at least xfs and reiserfs are not able of handling them, as
> Apache with UTF-8 as default charset delievers wrong names, when accessing
> files with German umlauts.

That's an Apache bug, and/or a problem with your Apache configuration.
Talk to Apache people.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
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