Re: JFS default behavior

From: Nicolas Mailhot
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 03:32:04 EST


Le lun, 16/02/2004 Ã 05:45 +0200, Jan Knutar a Ãcrit :
> > - what happens to already existing invalid UTF-8 filenames ? Should
> > the kernel forcibly rewrite them (in 2.7.0...) to remove legacy mess
> > ? What should happen if someone plug an unconverted FS in such a
> > system afterwards ?
>
> What I would like would be a userspace tool, that would recurse and
> convert filename encodings from specified locale to UTF-8. Something
> like "any2utf8 -from iso8859-1 -recurse /mnt/myoldmp3disk".
> Does anyone know if such a tool exists already?

One can do find+ recode magic now

The question is :
- can this be automated ?
- how can one recognise and unconverted fs ?
- how can on guess the encodings(s) that have been used before on such
an fs ?

You're assuming the situation is merely a iso8859-1 to utf-8 migration.
Far from it. The core problem is everyone damn wrote what it pleased him
without considering future readers.

Cheers,

--
Nicolas Mailhot

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