From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261699AbVFPBts (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:49:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261701AbVFPBts (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:49:48 -0400 Received: from downeast.net ([12.149.251.230]:15332 "EHLO downeast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261699AbVFPBti (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:49:38 -0400 From: Patrick McFarland To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:49:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Alexey Zaytsev , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3260359.ZKZrSuiHNa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506152149.06367.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3260359.ZKZrSuiHNa Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 13 June 2005 03:20 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > An ext3fs is always utf-8. People might have chosen to put other > encodings on it but thats "not our fault" ;) What happens if you 'field upgrade' ext2 to ext3 by adding a journal? That= =20 doesn't magically convert !utf-8 to utf-8. > There are some good technical reasons too > > Encodings don't map 1:1 - two names may cease to be unique Hold up. Unless the original encoding is 'wrong' and has two mapped charact= ers=20 that, in reality, are the same character, no such uniqueness should stop.=20 (This implies the encoding that we switched to 'fixed' said 'bug') > Encodings vary in length - image a file name that is longer than the > allowed maximum on your system with your encoding choice - that could > occur with KOI8-R to UTF-8 I believe Thats a fault of the file system design, not of the encoding. File systems= =20 should not have very short filenames. =2D-=20 Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, w= e'd=20 all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening= to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 --nextPart3260359.ZKZrSuiHNa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCsNqS8Gvouk7G1cURAkwcAJ9slsQVw7/MdAJy/FuaTyrvhW1m9ACdEhMh wWbUbmus3O9DeikuzKm4pPY= =nvib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3260359.ZKZrSuiHNa--