Re: (reiserfs) unicode (from linux-kernel)

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Thu, 14 May 1998 11:11:32 +0200 (MET DST)

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Marc Lehmann writes:
> > > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 07:01:23PM +0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > >> We could have a (rather simple) scheme, in which we use one byte in each
> > >
> > > a byte? a _single_ byte?
> >
> > It's not bad if the byte is an index into a table of languages.
> > Then you could put your choice of up to 256 encodings on a filesystem,
>
> There are many more than 256 languages on earth! (klingon etc. NOT counted).

But how many alphabets are there?
I can think of:
- latin (total 3 variants needed)
- cyrillic
- japanese
- chinese (needing maybe 10 or 20 maps)
- thai
- greek
- arabic
- hebrew
- glyphs (2 maps)
- klingon
- elven (tolkien + others)

This means some 32 maps. And since I probably forgot some
75%, we could have 128 maps filled by now.
OK, I agree this might be somewhat small...

Rik.
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