From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266172AbUBQON1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:13:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266221AbUBQON0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:13:26 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:6287 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266172AbUBQONZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:13:25 -0500 Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) From: Dave Kleikamp To: Marc Lehmann Cc: Linus Torvalds , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <20040216205835.GG17015@schmorp.de> References: <04Feb13.163954est.41760@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <200402150006.23177.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040214232935.GK8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200402150107.26277.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040216183616.GA16491@schmorp.de> <20040216200321.GB17015@schmorp.de> <20040216205835.GG17015@schmorp.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077027146.4534.26.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:12:26 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:58, Marc Lehmann wrote: > True. Thanks a lot for explaining your arguments in this detail. In > fact, I can accept most if not all of your arguments, but I sitll think > it would be nice to have this extra functionality. > > Arguments like "it's a pain to implement" (which I don't think it is, but > you are clearly better in judging that!), weigh even more to me. > > So even if I think it's a good idea, it might never be implemneted for > purely practical reasons. Use jfs with the mount option iocharset=utf8 and you'll get exactly what you are asking for. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center