From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] UDF support for UTF-16
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:59:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180607165901.GA12995@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx+LdZXkcys4Je3wZNWDZLpgv=5ZdQ=ydUhKFUM1F=CDw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:31 AM Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > to get UDF support for UTF-16 characters in file names.
>
> Who uses UTF-16 in this day and age?
>
> It's a broken format.
>
> It's not mentioned in the commit logs *why* this is done.
Here's some background:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg124310.html
Yeah, it's a totally broken format, but we shouldn't be thinking that
filenames which come to us in UTF16 are actually in UCS2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-07 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-07 15:31 [GIT PULL] UDF support for UTF-16 Jan Kara
2018-06-07 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-07 16:59 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-06-07 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-06-08 11:56 ` Jan Kara
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