From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261520AbVFMMHh (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:07:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261524AbVFMMHh (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:07:37 -0400 Received: from gs.bofh.at ([193.154.150.68]:20944 "EHLO gs.bofh.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261520AbVFMMF5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:05:57 -0400 Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Alexey Zaytsev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:05:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1118664352.898.16.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:38 +0400, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: [ Filenames with another encoding ] > Some would suggest not to use non-ascii file names at all, some would > say that I should temporary change my locale, some could even offer me > a perl script they wrote when faced the same problem. All these > solutions are inconvenient and conflict with fundamental VFS concepts. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In what way? Basically you just rename the files. How can this conflict with "fundamental VFS concepts" (and with which). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services