From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261674AbVFPBrM (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:47:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261678AbVFPBrM (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:47:12 -0400 Received: from downeast.net ([12.149.251.230]:996 "EHLO downeast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261674AbVFPBrG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:47:06 -0400 From: Patrick McFarland To: Lukasz Stelmach Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:44:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Lennart Sorensen , mru@inprovide.com, "Alexander E. Patrakov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050615212825.GS23621@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <42B0BAF5.106@poczta.fm> In-Reply-To: <42B0BAF5.106@poczta.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1327223.c9iJ4j8BY0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506152144.56540.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1327223.c9iJ4j8BY0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 15 June 2005 07:34 pm, Lukasz Stelmach wrote: > That's why UTF-8 is suggested. UTF-8 has been developed to "fool" the > software that need not to be aware of unicodeness of the text it manages > to handle it without any hickups *and* to store in the text information > about multibyte characters.What characters exactly you do mean? NULL? > There is no NULL byte in any UTF-8 string except the one which > terminates it. Bingo. Only the operating system itself and software displaying filenames=20 needs to understand Unicode; the file system implementation itself just kno= ws=20 its a string of bytes and nothing else. > I've tried cd packet writing with UDF and it gives insane overhead of > about 20%. What metadata you'd like to store for example on your > flashdrive or a floppy disk? Uh, 20%? That sounds awfully high. You sure you didn't do something wrong? =2D-=20 Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, w= e'd=20 all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening= to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 --nextPart1327223.c9iJ4j8BY0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsNmY8Gvouk7G1cURAgEgAJwIHTyOfyzxUiysW/+CETM77eNnlACgrVok n/z/n2UPUyy1/dYsjK6bHEY= =743b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1327223.c9iJ4j8BY0--