On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:57:43AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > 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.
No, the only possible solution is for all terminals UTF-8, too, and ls continues printing filenames as it is now. If I have a file "h�llo" in UTF-8, and my terminal is ISO-8859-1, and ls "helpfully" recodes that for me, and I type "cat h�llo", cat doesn't know to recode the filename, so it doesn't work. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
