From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Racy NLS behaviour in FAT (and possible other fs)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:32:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ps86m4to.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D9D848.4010608@drzeus.cx> (Pierre Ossman's message of "Mon\, 19 Feb 2007 18\:03\:04 +0100")
Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> writes:
> OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>> I'm experiencing a rather odd behaviour with the character set
>>> conversion. If I mount a vfat fs with utf8 and then create a file
>>> with invalid utf-8 sequences, the file will briefly exist with these
>>> invalid sequences, then quickly convert to a stripped version.
>>
>> Yes. utf8 support is broken, and it will fail to convert letter case
>> on many case. And it's why that is not recommended.
>
> Is there any ongoing work to fix this? UTF-8 is standard on more or less
> every distribution these days.
Yes. But sorry, I don't have any plan and time to fix it now.
If you are using "iocharset=utf8" now, "codepage=cp???,iocharset=xxx,utf8"
might help a bit.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-19 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-19 15:53 Pierre Ossman
2007-02-19 16:55 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-02-19 17:03 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-02-19 17:32 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2007-02-20 6:43 ` Pierre Ossman
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