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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:41:21 +0100 (BST)

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> > However, my personal belief is that there should be a policy in
> > the kernel to only allow whole characters to be stored; in this case the
> > kernel will need to know what encoding is used for file names.
>
> I somewhat agree here (I hadn't considered this point). But as said
> earlier, perhaps a module could handle it. All that's really needed

Bogus. A remote NFS or imported fs from another host may have partial
symbols - so you have to handle it. If it worries you stick it in user
space

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