Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@netcom.ca)
Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:39:13 -0400 (EDT)

> The other problem being that if Unicode upper/lowercase mapping were
> supported... in addition to all of the other mappings used... [Unicode is
> REALLY the easiest because of all the info available].... The kernel
> would bloat, yes?

The OSTA-UDF(tm) filesystem I'm working on supports compressed Unicode.
Basically, the first byte is a flag inidcating how to expand the following
bytes:
8 = high byte is 0 and low byte is from data stream
16 = high byte is followed by low byte in the data stream
By the ISO standards, this is CS0 or a character set defined by agreement.

If the kernel used these, I'd be very happy :-)

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