Re: Unicode policy

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Philipp Gühring wrote:

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>Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2003 02:55 schrieben Sie:
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>>It is a VFS issue.  We just conform.  VFS can't handle / and null being
>>in a filename, so Unicode can't work in Linux.  If you get VFS to handle
>>Unicode, I'll make ReiserFS work.  Linus is the one to convince, not us.
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>Hi Hans,
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>UTF-8 (is also Unicode) has no nulls in it, and does not 
>generate '/' or other problematic charakters, and is actually working on 
>Reiserfs.
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Well, in that case, everything is done, VFS is fine as is, just start 
using UTF-8.  I am not sure who decides how to render UTF-8, but that 
would presumably be outside the kernel.

>The problem with a migration to Unicode is that we either have to switch all 
>applications at once, or have the information in the filesystem, in which 
>encoding the filenames are ...
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>But you are right, it's a VFS issue ...
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>Many greetings,
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Hans