Ok, does anybody know if the same applies to other unices (e.g.: AIX/Solaris)? I would like to understand how Linux compare to these commercial OS's. Thank you, marco
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > > Assume it's a null-terminated octet string. It shouldn't be empty, > > and it shouldn't contain (ASCII) '/'. You can't assume the string > > is valid character data in any particular encoding. > > Thank you Edmund, > So, that means that there is no way for me to understand the encoding > unless I look at some mount options ... right? > > Wrong. > There is no way to understand the encoding period. > > That is, there is no encoding. A filename is just a > null-terminated octet string, like Edmund says. > No character set involved. > In the same filesystem some users may write French > in ISO 8859-1, while others write Russian in KOI-8. > > The only source of information is the user. > (And the environment variables she set.) > > Andries > > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > > --------------------------------------------------- ~ . . /V\ Computers are like air conditioners. // \\ They stop working when you open Windows. /( )\ ^`~'^ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
