From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266369AbUBLMDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:03:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266397AbUBLMDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:03:25 -0500 Received: from [212.28.208.94] ([212.28.208.94]:49938 "HELO dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266369AbUBLMDY (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:03:24 -0500 From: Robin Rosenberg To: jw schultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:03:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040209115852.GB877@schottelius.org> <20040212004532.GB29952@hexapodia.org> <20040212035435.GB19507@pegasys.ws> In-Reply-To: <20040212035435.GB19507@pegasys.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402121303.22305.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 12 February 2004 04.54, jw schultz wrote: > For Linux there is no policy except perhaps in userspace. > It is up to userspace to determine what the policy will be > regarding charset for filename storage. Common practice > seems to be utf-8. Isn't it is the user's locale, whatever that is? I believe my file names use ISO-8859-1 (except ntfs, vfat). In northern/western europe ISO-8859-1 is common. (Sometimes ISO-8859-15 which for all practical purposes is backwards compatible with 8859-1). UTF-8 is gaining terrain though since it is now the default in some distributions even for Nordic languages (causing big problems for those not expecting it). -- robin