From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266330AbUBQQq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:46:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266317AbUBQQq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:46:58 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:57988 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266328AbUBQQq5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:46:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:46:51 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Marc Lehmann , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linux kernel Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) Message-ID: <20040217164651.GB23499@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040216183616.GA16491@schmorp.de> <20040216200321.GB17015@schmorp.de> <20040216222618.GF18853@mail.shareable.org> <20040217071448.GA8846@schmorp.de> <20040217161111.GE8231@schmorp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think the filenames are just ways for a _program_ to look up stuff, and > the human readability is a secondary thing (it's "polite", but not a > fundamental part of their meaning). Politeness is nice. I'm sure there's a pragmatic reason most filenames are meaningful text in some human language :) I'd like a way to type something like "touch zöe.txt" on an ordinary latin1 terminal and get a UTF-8 filename in my filesystem. Thanks :) -- Jamie