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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>,
	Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@laPoste.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re:
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:08:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040218000842.GT8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402172256.30397.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:56:30PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> Again users want characters, not bytes. Here up in the north we are among the
> lucky ones that can still read a partially unlegible file name, because enough many
> characters are usually just ascii. If a name was encoded in SJIS and you see them
> interpreted as UTF-8 you'll a a string of pure garbage and you need to ask a bit
> twiddler for help in decoding it simply becase ASCII characters are not likely to be
> among the characters.

What I see is a string of pure garbage _here_.  On l-k.  Large part of that
garbage obviously coming from kooks with agenda.  Could we please take that
shite to more appropriate place?  Alt.sex.encodings.byte.byte.byte, whatever.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-18  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-17 12:36 Nicolas Mailhot
2004-02-17 18:55 ` Alex Belits
2004-02-17 21:56   ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-18  0:08     ` viro [this message]
2004-02-18  0:38       ` Robin Rosenberg

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