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 19:51:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A0A577.4080806@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbkvs7bx.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
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On 12/28/2014 06:06 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> As I said, the codepage option is used for upper/lower conversion.
But userspace tools like ls and the terminal expect all filenames to
be in utf8, not in some random codepage that varies from fs to fs, so
how is it not a bug that the names aren't translated?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-29 0:51 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
2014-12-28 23:06 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2014-12-29 0:51 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-12-29 1:00 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
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