Subject: Re: Unicode support in iso9660.
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/16/2004 13:00:08
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On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:39 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> For msdosfs, you still need the mount option to tell the kernel how to
> convert the on-disk format to utf8. IMHO it does not make much sense
> to let
> the kernel convert to users current locale imediately - so passing out
> the
> data from kernel to userland in utf8 is a good idea.
>
> And the easiest thing to do for ffs is to interpret the stored data as
> utf8
> always, which fits very well with Valerieys suggestion.
I agree completely that UTF-8 is the ideal conversion target for
kernel<->userland interaction. I *think* this is what Mac OS X does,
as well.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
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