From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267083AbUBRB00 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:26:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267094AbUBRB00 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:26:26 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:3504 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267083AbUBRB0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:26:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4032BF78.70802@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:27:20 -0800 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Smietanowski CC: Linus Torvalds , Marc Lehmann , Jamie Lokier , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linux kernel Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API References: <200402150107.26277.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040216183616.GA16491@schmorp.de> <20040216200321.GB17015@schmorp.de> <20040216222618.GF18853@mail.shareable.org> <20040217071448.GA8846@schmorp.de> <20040217161111.GE8231@schmorp.de> <40324741.4040707@stesmi.com> In-Reply-To: <40324741.4040707@stesmi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ReiserFS 6 plans to allow files to be associated with arbitrary files and found by those associations. Some of those files will consist of ascii keywords, some will be icon images, etc..... Human readability should not be considered fundamental to a name component, especially since programs with no interest in readability may be the only direct users of the name. Hans >