From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: msdos filesystem ignores codepage argument?
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:13:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A0807A.8000803@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zja7so8x.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
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On 12/28/2014 12:00 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> codepage option is to specify what codepage is used as on-disk
> encode in FAT, not how convert to encoding to show.
>
> And msdos driver doesn't have the feature to encoding conversion
> between on-disk and user (codepage is used only to upper/lower case
> conversion basically). IOW, msdos assumes the user and on-disk
> encodings are same.
Umm... so you are saying the argument does nothing on purpose? What
is the use of specifying the on disk code page if not so that it can
be translated to utf8?
>> Also in the process I noticed some odd behavior of ls. If I set
>> my terminal to use cp850 and ls | cat, I see the umlouted A, but
>> without piping the output through cat, it comes out as a question
>> mark. Why is that?
>
> It is what "ls" does. Probably, following option will show raw
> string
>
> $ ls -N --show-control-chars
What exactly is it doing that causes its output to differ when sent to
a tty vs a pipe?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-28 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-26 22:50 msdos filesystem ignores codepage argument? Phillip Susi
2014-12-28 17:00 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2014-12-28 22:13 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-12-28 23:06 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2014-12-29 0:51 ` Phillip Susi
2014-12-29 1:00 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
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