Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior)

Jamie Lokier
2004-02-16T22:26:28Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It would also be very painful, since it would mean that when you mount an
> old disk, you may be totally unable to read the files, because they have
> filenames that such a kernel would never accept.

Alas, once userspace has migrated to doing everything in UTF-8, you
won't be able to read those files because userspace will barf on them.

Then you'll be glad to have a mount option which converts iso-8859-1
to UTF-* :) (Even if the old disk as actually not iso-8859-1, at least
you'll be able to read it's mangled filenames, rather than userspace
tripping over them).

-- Jamie