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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@rambler.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Russian encoding support for MacHFS
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:46:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b05012410463c7fd842@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050124125756.60c5ae01.sonic_amiga@rambler.ru>

(could you please use shorter lines? Around 80 is good. It's difficult to read).

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:57:56 +0300, Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@rambler.ru> wrote:
> ... This means that you must to be able to reverse-translate all names from
> Linux encoding to Mac encoding. Using NLS causes characters loss if
> requested character does not exist in the table (it is substituted by '?').
> Macintosh disks often contains specific characters in file names
> ("Folder" character for example) which will be lost in this case.

how about just leave the characters unchanged? (remap them to the same
codes in Unicode).

> Probably using utf8 as host encoding would solve the problem but it's not
> commonly used in Russia.

Unicode, and its encoding UTF8 IS commonly used everywhere.
And Russia can (and often does) use it just as well.

P.S. Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
What kernel is the patch against?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-24 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-24  9:57 Pavel Fedin
2005-01-24 18:46 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2005-01-25  9:35   ` Pavel Fedin
2005-01-25 15:34     ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-26  6:30       ` Pavel Fedin
2005-01-27  8:29     ` Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-11  8:58 Pavel Fedin

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