From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@rambler.ru>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Full NLS support for HFS (classic) filesystem
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:28:09 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505311719330.3728@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117550958.8073.30.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Hi,
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> So unless you use UTF8, any other conversion using NLS/code pages will
> always have failure cases...
No suprise. :)
Anyone working with different encodings and doesn't use utf8, simply has
to expect problems.
> > So create two functions uni2char/char2uni, which provide perfect reverse
> > mapping. Sorry, but I don't understand what your problem is here.
> > It seems you're making it more complex than it really is.
>
> That is impossible due to the problems with compatibility characters I
> explained above which why I would agree with you that such magic
> conversions should never happen, just put "use utf8 if you have
> problems" in the mount man page...
He only wants to convert from one 8-bit encoding to another 8-bit
encoding. It's a hack, but it's a hack which can be done transparently via
the nls layer, so it doesn't has to be done in the filesystem.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-31 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <429B1E35.2040905@rambler.ru>
2005-05-30 11:50 ` [PATCH] Full NLS support for HFS (classic) filesystem Roman Zippel
2005-05-31 13:37 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-05-31 10:45 ` Roman Zippel
2005-05-31 19:35 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-05-31 12:13 ` Roman Zippel
2005-05-31 21:21 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-05-31 13:59 ` Roman Zippel
2005-05-31 14:49 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-05-31 15:28 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2005-06-02 13:34 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-06-02 9:24 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-06-03 13:34 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-06-03 8:09 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-06-06 13:15 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-06-06 12:44 ` Roman Zippel
2005-06-06 21:44 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-06-06 14:44 ` Roman Zippel
2005-06-08 18:08 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-06-01 0:26 ` Roman Zippel
[not found] ` <429F0869.4010805@rambler.ru>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506021130290.3728@scrub.home>
2005-06-03 14:00 ` Pavel Fedin
2005-06-09 23:47 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-30 14:05 Pavel Fedin
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