From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261229AbVFMTmg (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:42:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261241AbVFMTmf (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:42:35 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:22482 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261238AbVFMTkd (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:40:33 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:38:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1118669746.13260.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lLk/NgVfGdxNBXSBnLc1br7C3I4= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 18:20, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: >> Yes, that's how it works, but if I want ext or reiser or whatever to >> have NLS, I'll have to make them support it (btw, if I do so, wont it >> be rejected?). I want to move the NLS one level upper so the >> filesystem imlementations won't have to worry about it any more. I >> don't have much kernel experience, and none in the fs area, so I can't >> explain it any better, but hope you get the idea. > > An ext3fs is always utf-8. People might have chosen to put other > encodings on it but thats "not our fault" ;) I was of the impression that most filesystems (ext3 included) treated file names as a sequence of bytes, and didn't care about encoding. Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com