From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261701AbVFPBxZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:53:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261703AbVFPBxY (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:53:24 -0400 Received: from downeast.net ([12.149.251.230]:46820 "EHLO downeast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261701AbVFPBxB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:53:01 -0400 From: Patrick McFarland To: Alexey Zaytsev Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:52:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart10977259.EhfRPQFGee"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506152152.02840.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart10977259.EhfRPQFGee Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 15 June 2005 04:50 pm, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > On 13/06/05, Alan Cox wrote: > > That said it ought to be possible to use the stackable fs work (FUSE > > etc) to write a layer you can mount over any fs that does NLS > > translation. > > Now I quite agree that it isn't a Great Idea to do such conversion in > the kernel, but the problem still remains and there is no other place > we can do it. I belive that it should be done now and removed after > the world finishes to move to utf. Maybe it should not be applyed to > the main kernel tree, but I'm sure that at least Russian linux > distributions will like it. I partially agree. I think no userland application should have access to th= e=20 un-'fixed' file names; they should be fed only Unicode to prevent the sprea= d=20 and acceptance of out of date encodings. =46orcing users to do smart things is often the only way to make them do sm= art=20 things, and the lack of acceptance of Unicode on Linux in the wild seems to= =20 be the only way. =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 --nextPart10977259.EhfRPQFGee Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsNtC8Gvouk7G1cURAjUkAJ9QttNU3jHa0rE8i+sgi4VYlXsInACfVxls zf1heya8HoEYgzhl+fr5Di8= =LhBp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10977259.EhfRPQFGee--