From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261707AbVFPCgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:36:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261708AbVFPCgn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:36:43 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:8864 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261707AbVFPCgh (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:36:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:36:30 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Patrick McFarland Cc: Alan Cox , Alexey Zaytsev , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Message-ID: <20050616023630.GC9773@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Patrick McFarland , Alan Cox , Alexey Zaytsev , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200506152149.06367.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506152149.06367.pmcfarland@downeast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:49:05PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: > 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 > doesn't magically convert !utf-8 to utf-8. Ext2/3's encoding has always been utf-8. Period. There have been some people who have chosen to do something else locally, but that was about as valid as the people who violated SMTP standards by Just Sending 8-bits instead of using MIME. - Ted