From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261551AbVFMNiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261556AbVFMNiL (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:38:11 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48600 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261551AbVFMNiK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:38:10 -0400 Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. From: Alan Cox To: Alexey Zaytsev Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1118669746.13260.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:35:50 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 11:38, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > Instead of adding NLS support to filesystems who don't have it yet, I > think there should be a global NLS layer, to convert file names from > any to any encoding, independent of file system and transparently to > the user. Thats essentially what we have. The core OS is UTF-8, the fat and one or two other legacy file systems support mapping old and/or inferior encodings into utf-8 (and some other stuff). Alan