Re: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.

Tim Connors
2004-02-11T06:39:26Z

Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org> said on Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:58:52 +0100:
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> Morning!
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> What Linux supported filesystems support UTF-8 filenames?
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> Looks like at least xfs and reiserfs are not able of handling them,
> as Apache with UTF-8 as default charset delievers wrong names, when
> accessing files with German umlauts.

I submitted a bug to the jfs people, because jfs incorrectly returns
-EINVAL (this isn't even documented in man pages as a valid return
from open()) from an open() on a filename with UTF-8 in it.

See http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=3838&group_id=35
and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229308

This was triggered just by upgrading the console-utils package in
debian (the problem existed all along, except that when I first made
the filesystem a jfs one, I reinstalled from backups, rather than
reinstalling debian from scratch)

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