Re: Unicode policy

[Yury Umanets <umka@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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UTF-8 only uses two bytes for non latin characters (they cannot be fit 
one byte) and one byte for latin ones. In the case of latin characters, 
codes to be used will be the same as in ISO-8859-1, that is latin1.

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>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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