Re: New Solaris 7 features

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:44:43 +0000 (GMT)

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> some unicode support is rquired for the console and keyboard, but
> arguably its not for filenames.
>
> we could just declare all filenames as utf-8, but I'm sure some
> pre-existing filenames somewhere in the world will be affected by
> this.

We did ages ago. Filenames are 'officially' UTF8 encoded, and the NTfs
etc do the relevant coversions (las I checked 16bit charsets dont work
but there are patches around for that).

If you prefer to think of your ext2fs as some other encoding and print
the names accordingly nobody minds

Alan

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