From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266489AbUBLPlX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:41:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266493AbUBLPlX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:41:23 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:50084 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266489AbUBLPlV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:41:21 -0500 Subject: Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.) From: Dave Kleikamp To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Andy Isaacson , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <200402121526.i1CFQXL7018236@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20040209115852.GB877@schottelius.org> <1076517309.21961.169.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> <20040212004532.GB29952@hexapodia.org> <200402121526.i1CFQXL7018236@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076600469.16375.7.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:41:09 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:26, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:45:32 CST, Andy Isaacson said: > Now, over the last 15 years I've tripped over a number of *userspace* > things that did really stupid things when handed non-ASCII filenames, > but that's a different issue... That's the problem that OS/2 addressed. In OS/2 each application would see the correct charset for its locale, no matter what the locale of the application that created the file was. In Linux, the file system simply doesn't have the information needed to do this, so it was a mistake to try to imitate it. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center