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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:20:53 +0400
From: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS.
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On 13/06/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 11:38, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> > Instead of adding NLS support to filesystems who don't have it yet, I
> > think there should be a global NLS layer, to convert file names from
> > any to any encoding, independent of file system and transparently to
> > the user.
> 
> Thats essentially what we have. The core OS is UTF-8, the fat and one or
> two other legacy file systems support mapping old and/or inferior
> encodings into utf-8 (and some other stuff).

Yes, that's how it works, but if I want ext or reiser or whatever to
have NLS, I'll have to make them support it (btw, if I do so, wont it
be rejected?). I want to move the NLS one level upper so the
filesystem imlementations won't have to worry about it any more. I
don't have much kernel experience, and none in the fs area, so I can't
explain it any better, but hope you get the idea.

> Alan
 Thank you answering.