Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Yes, but when the russian files are put on NFS and shared with another
> system which happens to use another encoding for cyrillic?
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> The kernel should consider filenames as only bytes (which, btw, it doesn't
> do now! look at Linux sources in fs/nls/ directory); but there should be
> a policy set to standardize in only one encoding for actual storing; so
> sharing can be possible in an easier way.
>
It does for all filesystems where it has a choice. The NLS stuff is
only used for non-POSIX filesystems like FAT where it doesn't have a
choice.
-hpa
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