>> > I think you need two conversons:
>> > kernel: filesystem-charset to utf-8
>> > then
>> > userland: utf-8 to LC_CHARSET.

	Sorry I may not follow the discussion, but...
	Please don't ever, ever hardcode something to utf-8.  There are
	character sets that contain characters that are not covered in utf-8.
	It is NOT universal.

itojun