On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:25:37AM +0100, Martin Kochanski wrote: > Thank you for your response.... > > Is a user able to change locales without rebuilding the filesystem? >
s/rebuilding/remounting/ No. > If so, then if a user changes locales (for example from Latin-1 to UTF8), does this >mean that all existing filenames [with accented letters] suddenly become >undisplayable because what was valid as a Latin-1 string is no longer valid as UTF8; >or is there some more persistent concept of "the locale of a filesystem" that >protects against this problem? There is a concept of "filesystem encoding" (NLS), but it requires root assistance, and does not solve the problem of two users having different locales, accessing the same filesystem - considering this situation, the only possible solution is to have filenames in UTF-8, and applications (such as ls) aware of it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
