From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261354AbVFOJOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:14:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261359AbVFOJOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:14:17 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:15296 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261354AbVFOJOB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:14:01 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Alexey Zaytsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:13:44 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506151213.44742.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 June 2005 13:38, 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. > > So what do you think? Is it all nonsense or maybe I should try to implement it? I do not understand how this is going to look from userspace perspective. Can you give examples how this will work? -- vda