From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: msdos filesystem ignores codepage argument?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:00:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx0f5kyz.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A0A577.4080806@ubuntu.com> (Phillip Susi's message of "Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:51:03 -0500")
Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> writes:
>>> 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?
Kernel doesn't know about $LANG at all. utf8 is just in a userland
thing, and normal UNIX FSes doesn't care about encoding *at all*, just
save as-is. It is why you feel FSes working by utf8.
Well, anyway, if you want to add encoding conversion to msdos, we need
the patch.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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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
2014-12-29 1:00 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
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