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By author: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> Martin Kochanski writes:
>
> > how can a poor innocent server discover enough about the
> > context in which it is running to know what filename it has to
> > use so that a
> > user who lists a file directory will see "R�ve" on his screen?
>
> Since it depends on the user's locale, you'll have to convert the
> filename from the given encoding to the user's locale encoding.
> Start out with...
>
Either that, or just say fsck it and tell the user to use an UTF-8
locale. That also means you can use every Unicode character except
null (\0) and slash (/).
-hpa
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