Re: UTF-8, OSTA-UDF [why?], Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberish

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
19 Aug 1997 07:55:57 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970818205946.6496J-100000@sigil.csc.com>
By author: Teunis Peters <teunis@usa.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> ext-2 : Latin-1? (though UTF-8 is supported)
>

ext2, like any POSIX-compatible filesystem, can handle any character
set encoding as long as it doesn't mess with the byte encodings of
'\0' (0x00) and '/' (0x2f). Any ISO 646 (including ASCII) character
set, any ISO 8859 (including Latin-1) character set, or UTF-8 all have
this property. In fact, this was a major impetus for the creation of
UTF-8.

-hpa

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