From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261423AbVFTSly (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:41:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261435AbVFTSly (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:41:54 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:414 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261423AbVFTSlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:41:52 -0400 Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. From: Alan Cox To: Pavel Machek Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , Patrick McFarland , Alexey Zaytsev , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050619175503.GA3193@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200506152149.06367.pmcfarland@downeast.net> <20050616023630.GC9773@thunk.org> <87y89a7wfn.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <20050616143727.GC10969@thunk.org> <20050619175503.GA3193@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1119292723.3279.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:38:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sul, 2005-06-19 at 18:55, Pavel Machek wrote: > Actually the day we have rm utf-8-ed, we have a problem. Someone will > create two files that have same utf name, encoded differently, and > will be in trouble. Remember old > \* "hack"? utf-8 makes variation > possible... They are different to POSIX as they are different byte sequences > > If we are serious about utf-8 support in ext3, we should return > -EINVAL if someone passes non-canonical utf-8 string. That would ironically not be standards compliant