Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.

[Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>]

On 13/06/05, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:38 +0400, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> [ Filenames with another encoding ]
> > Some would suggest not to use non-ascii file names at all, some would
> > say that I should temporary change my locale, some could even offer me
> > a perl script they wrote when faced the same problem. All these
> > solutions are inconvenient and conflict with fundamental VFS concepts.
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> In what way?
> Basically you just rename the files. How can this conflict with
> "fundamental VFS concepts" (and with which).

I can't rename files on Pupkin's drive because he won't like it. ;)
In the case with a flash drive I can copy all the files to my computer
and rename them, but I can't do it with a bigger media like hard disk.

The main idea of VFS is that you can access your files in the same way
on any supported file system. But actually you can't simple access
different-encoded non-ascii files on a filesystem that has no NLS,
like ext or reiser.
 
>        Bernd