From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261702AbVFPB4F (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:56:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261703AbVFPB4F (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:56:05 -0400 Received: from downeast.net ([12.149.251.230]:6373 "EHLO downeast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261702AbVFPBz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:55:57 -0400 From: Patrick McFarland To: Denis Vlasenko Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:55:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Alexey Zaytsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200506151213.44742.vda@ilport.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <200506151213.44742.vda@ilport.com.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2539200.gc0paBJE4W"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506152155.05865.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart2539200.gc0paBJE4W Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 15 June 2005 05:13 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > I do not understand how this is going to look from userspace perspective. > Can you give examples how this will work? IMHO, he means that the userspace would only see Unicode filenames, and the= =20 userspace could only give Unicode names back to the kernel. The kernel, usi= ng=20 this global NLS layer would translate back and forth, and the userland=20 wouldn't know about it. Its basically the only sane way to approach the problem of getting the enti= re=20 Linux community to convert to Unicode. =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 --nextPart2539200.gc0paBJE4W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsNv58Gvouk7G1cURAoAhAJ0fsJHeGv0XyoWKpjSAaWvXBNxHbQCgr0IA bWm7JSiNT3XARCVJB86IrlI= =ps2z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2539200.gc0paBJE4W--