hi, I am fighting with all these problems, because I use 3 encodings on my linux box, french, russian and USA.
For filenames and directories, I have a suggestion: in the directories where all filenames and sub-directories are in a different encoding, to have a file ".encoding" which indicates the local encoding.: it's far to be perfect because, it's not a "per file" indication. After, it's only the job of the programs to interpret or not this file. It will not break the posix standart. In an another and better way, this standart has "maybe" to be improved and one way could be to add a stamp in the inodes whith indicates the encoding . Maybe , it's possible to implement a variant of the ext2 filesystem with this stamp omplemented. A specific system call could be created to read and set the encoding. "Old" programs could act like before, without interpreting the encoding stamp, and it will be like now. Eric! ---- ************[EMAIL PROTECTED]************* -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
