On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 10:46:47PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> dolecek@ics.muni.cz said:
> >  Most likely, the filesystems will accept the desired codeset as mount
> > option. 
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to pass the filename information to userland
> without loss and do the conversion there, controlled by the user's
> locale settings? Not that I expect strangers to mount my windows
> disks (if I only had any:-) anytime soon, but it would keep bloat out
> of the kernel.
> 
> With UTF8, this could even work without changes to the system interface.
> (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

I think you need two conversons:

kernel: filesystem-charset to utf-8
then
userland: utf-8 to LC_CHARSET.


	-is