From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266454AbUBQTAT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:00:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266452AbUBQTAT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:00:19 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:59849 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266454AbUBQTAP (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:00:15 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:00:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20040216183616.GA16491@schmorp.de> <20040216200321.GB17015@schmorp.de> <20040216222618.GF18853@mail.shareable.org> <20040217071448.GA8846@schmorp.de> <20040217161111.GE8231@schmorp.de> <20040217164651.GB23499@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-95a870d5.037-69-73746f23.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KS+fKYUbewnBANVWKc/ovmhhTs8= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier writes: > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> I think the filenames are just ways for a _program_ to look up stuff, and >> the human readability is a secondary thing (it's "polite", but not a >> fundamental part of their meaning). > > Politeness is nice. I'm sure there's a pragmatic reason most > filenames are meaningful text in some human language :) > > I'd like a way to type something like "touch zöe.txt" on an ordinary > latin1 terminal and get a UTF-8 filename in my filesystem. Thanks :) Then hack either bash (or whatever shell you use) or touch to do just that. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se