Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] Ext4 Encoding and Case-insensitive support

Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-12-09T20:10:46Z

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 09:41:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But if you only support ascii or utf-8, then why are you messing with
> the nls part? That makes no sense.
>
> You can't have it both ways.
>
> Either you have a horrible fundamental design mistake that has
> different per-filesystem locales, or you don't.
>
> If you don't, you shouldn't be touching any of the nls code.
>
> Whatever unicode tables you use for case folding shouldn't be in the nls code.

Gabriel added the Unicode tables for case folding to the fs/nls
directory. If you'd prefer that we put them somewhere else, we
can; do you have a preference?

- Ted